I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

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

[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been elected we'd still be where we are on gay rights.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.