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

There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of [Will Shawn].

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

Trotsky found out about him - Leon Trotsky - because A.J.[Muste] worked. He was an activist. And he organized the first sit-in strike in Toledo in a factory. And Trotsky was very impressed with that.

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