When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.