[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

[Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.