When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

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

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.