The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders. They should talk to everyone, they should listen to everyone, and at the end of the day they should have a mind of their own.

[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.