The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

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

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

[A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

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.

[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.