I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

What I said was that I was at first supportive of Bernie [Sanders] when he came to Los Angeles for his first rally, I was there, I was supportive.