The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I was co-editor of the magazine called The Jazz Review, which was a pioneering magazine because it was the only magazine, then or now, in which all the articles were written by musicians, by jazz men. They had been laboring for years under the stereotype that they weren't very articulate except when they picked up their horn.

[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.