It seems like you can't actually have really bad hair or be bald and run for President of the United States.

I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Once you're a public figure, there's a certain amount of privacy you do give up.

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely written treatise regarding the black list era.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.