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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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.
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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I’d been more unifying, I wish I’d been more principled.
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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, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.
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Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.
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Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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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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The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and humanities councils have canceled me, but never an independent bookstore.
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One hundred years from now, we’ll all be dead. It’s hard to believe. One hundred years from now, everyone we see every day will be gone.
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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
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I find some unity with Ron Paul.
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That’s what [Abraham] Lincoln said. “The white man will always be above the black man. I don’t want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa.”
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Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.
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Education is the motor-force of revolution.
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