[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.

Abortion happens because of economic circumstances.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

I can't think of a single area where [Barack] Obama is not destructive.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.

I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

Now that is dangerous, when the people don't know what's happening to their Constitution.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

In fact, we have never had more invasions of privacy than we have now [with Barack Obama].

Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.

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