My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips called him "the great slaver from Illinois."

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace.

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

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.