In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happen to agree with you, and I will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. Why we do that [United States has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], I think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

Culturally, I think 'All in the Family' was universal enough to have good timing at any time.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.