Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.