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Terrorists destroy randomly.
I don't regret setting bombs.
I didn't kill innocent people.
Nixon probably was a nice guy.
I have an addiction to caffeine.
I find some unity with Ron Paul.
Politicians are conservative by nature.
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.
Education is the motor-force of revolution.
I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].
It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.
Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.
I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.
I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.
Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.
I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.
I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.
What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.
Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.
Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do.
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.
If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.
I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.
You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!
Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.
The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.
We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.
When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.