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I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.
I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.
I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.
I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.
That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.
I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.
I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.
The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.
I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.
Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.
The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.
Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.
Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.
[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.
[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.
I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.
[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.
[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.
[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.
Lilian Ross was a - veteran writer for The New Yorker. She, in fact, brought me to The New Yorker many years ago.
[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.
The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.
[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.
The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.
Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.
I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.
You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.
[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.
I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.
The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.
He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.
The NSA has the capacity to keep track of everything we do on the phone and on the internet.[Barack] Obama has done nothing about that.
I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.
Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.
We live in the village. We have a summer place in Westport, Connecticut. We don't spend a lot on all kinds of things. But I have no complaints.
[My wife Margot] was the - I guess, the coordinator or the production manager [of The Jazz Review], and we got to know each other and we married.
A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.
There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.
Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.
Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.
[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.