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

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

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

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.

The Right said, [Barack Obama] is lying, he's a socialist who pals around with terrorists, he's a secret Muslim and blah blah blah. That was their line. The liberals all said, He's winking at me, I can feel him winking in my direction. He wasn't winking. He said exactly who he was and he's lived that out perfectly.

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