Nothing Is More Boring Than Some Old

I Don't Buy The Whole Mythology Of The Sixties. I Think I'm An Intergenerational Person.

There Are Things About Classic Liberalism That Obviously I'm Drawn To And I Bet All Of You Are As Well. Those Are Things Like Liberty, Freedom, The Bill Of Rights. But The Reason That I Reject The Label Is That I Grew Up Cutting My Teeth Against The Liberals.

Now You May Like The Images Of Long-haired Hippies Running In The Streets Throwing Tear Gas Canisters, But We Didn't End The War. And That's What We Set Out To Do. What Was Not Ended By The Anti-war Movement Was Ended By The Vietnamese. That's Our Shame.

Teaching Has Always Been, For Me, Linked To Issues Of Social Justice. I've Never Considered It A Neutral Or Passive Profession.

There Was A Sense Of Palpable Relief That George [w.] Bush Was Leaving And That The Republicans Had Slipped Back And That Was A Wonderful Feeling.