I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

I'd like to think that I have integrity.

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.