The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together.

The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.