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

You can’t win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60’s person or you’ve sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60’s are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

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.

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

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.

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.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature.

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.