I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.