Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.