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

In my 90-plus years, I have lived a multitude of lives.

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.

We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.

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.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.