We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.

As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

Reagan has very significant things to teach us - positive lessons and quite negative lessons.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.