The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

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.

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

[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.

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

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

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.