So that’s kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would’ve said, “I don’t have any politics. I’m a business person.” Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.
BILL AYERSWhen someone who’s always been in your life is gone, it’s a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.
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The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.
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I’m not disappointed in [Barack] Obama. He said who he is; he’s doing what he said he would do.
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Even there, [Barack] Obama’s generals, his Pentagon, they’re telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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In a wild and diverse democracy each of us should be trying to talk to lots and lots and lots of people outside of our own kind of comfort zone and community, and that injunction goes even further for political leaders.
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Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
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I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.
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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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