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

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

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

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

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

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.