He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

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

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

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

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.