My Dad Was A [theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

There's Something So Remarkable In The Intensity Of Taking Care Of Somebody Who Can't Take Care Of Him Or Herself. And Then Watching That Little Person Bloom Into Adolescence.

When I Was Young, Communism, Which Had A Certain Allure To Me, Was Clearly A Failed Experiment In The Soviet Union And In China. And Yet, Anti-communism Was As Bad.

Jane Addams, Founder Of Hull House, Once Asked, "how Shall We Respond To The Dreams Of Youth?" It Is A Dazzling And Elegant Question, A Question That Demands An Answer--a Range Of Answers, Really, Spiraling Outward In Widening Circles.

I See [lyndon] Johnson As The War In Vietnam, And The Invasion Of The Dominican Republic And So On. So I'm Not A Liberal In That Sense, Because I Think Of Liberals As Part Of That Establishment.

Hating War In Vietnam In 1965 Was Minority Position.