It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that….

TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary..

I think somehow I got a sense of the foolishness of the human - my favorite phrase, the foolishness of the human condition..

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met..

In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. Because it is you who thinks that America has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. I happ….

We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and yo….

I wanted to work with Bert Lahr [the 'Cowardly Lion' in 'The Wizard of Oz'], and I did..

That's the heart of it: My shows were not that controversial with the American people. They were controversial with the people who think for the Amer….

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come ….

I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me….

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly ….

We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, an….

Power is the goal of religion in general..

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjo….

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart..

The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long….

In this nation, leadership is dollars..

I get a kick out of the fact that people will pick on the writers in California for being responsible for the content. The people seriously responsib….

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end..

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'.

When I got married for the third time, and I had children from my other marriage there, that's what I said when it came time in the ceremony for me t….