This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what we're up to. This is not [Donald] Trump and [Steve] Bannon, it's from the [Bill] Clinton era.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot of others have no security.

The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.