Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

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

The people responsible for the dollars that will buy the sex and violence so many deplore, don't even know what's going - well, of course they know. But they're comfortably ensconced in their country clubs and churches, and very far removed from the decisions that are made on their behalf.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.