'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.

The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.

I think America, unfortunately, collectively thinks of itself as the 'chosen people.' To my knowledge, there are no chosen people, we are all human beings.

America is a country of excess.

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.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'