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

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over.'

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.

Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.