The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a pacifist had to be active in the community.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

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