To me, the amazing thing is that so much that was science fiction back then, political fiction, today is reality. We have indeed a spacecraft called an international space station. And we have the diversity of this planet working on that ship, including Americans and Russians working side by side. I think the imagineers are the ones that set the goal. And the inventors and the technicians see that as a goal to work toward, or the political scientists and the diplomats. And eventually, that's arrived at.
George TakeiToday we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.
George TakeiYes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
George TakeiYou know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
George Takei