Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us. Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.