Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s and the early '50s that were revisionists. They were attacking the whole basis of the history of the Cold War. People like D.F. Fleming, William Appleman Williams.

I don't think most people in the US realize how important WikiLeaks is and why Julian's case needs support.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?