I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.

Politicians are conservative by nature.

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.

The passions and commitments that ignited my activity as a student are the same passions and commitments that I have today.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.