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

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.

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.

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

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