Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

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

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.

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

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

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.