Education is the motor-force of revolution.

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.

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.