Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
Bill AyersWho's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.
Bill AyersIt's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
Bill AyersI wasn't part of John Kennedy's vision of the world, or Lyndon Johnson's. I thought of them as anti-Communist imperial monsters.
Bill Ayers