I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever.'

'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.