You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away

The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.