I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.