“There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.”

I don’t feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily–obviously not completely–moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

I don’t come from a privileged background.

I think that there is a lot going on with young people today.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable… those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture,

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we’ve called the military error.

The ’60s are presented to kids today as a commodity.

Killing a cop just because he’s a cop, that’ll happen. And that should happen. And there’s nothing inhuman about it at all. It’s survival. It’s the most human thing in the world.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

I’m so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I’ve been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I’ve allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses’ “first ascension,” and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses’ inner being. …

Tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.

I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.

We should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.

I must be allowed to be as I am.

Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things