I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being….

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and wa….

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thou….

I find some unity with Ron Paul..

I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, bu….

Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the ….

I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the probl….

In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything; the question is, can you….

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism..

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!.

I'm not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he's doing what he said he would do..

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent..

Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?.

You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of th….

[John] McCain seemed to be winking to the Right, and [Barack] Obama seemed to be winking to the Left. Neither one of them - if McCain had been electe….

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more conce….

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant..

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be..

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like w….

Education is the motor-force of revolution..

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values..