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.

I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

My father lived with me the last five years of his life and passed away of Alzheimer's, and at that point he was saying to anyone who would listen, "We all hated the war in Vietnam." Well, it was easy to hate the war in Vietnam 40 years on.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.