Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!