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.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history, and she's the winner on the mathematical basis.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

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.