An example is ObamaCare, which is now embattled in the Senate. If that goes through the way [Barack] Obama wants, we will have something very much like the British system.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

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

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

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

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

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.