Students For A Democratic Society Was Founded

It Was The Democratic Party, It Was The Presidential Election. We Elected A President [barack Obama]; We Didn't Elect A King. So All The Speculation In The Next Three Months - People Camped Out At His House, And Wondering Who's Coming To Visit, Who's Going To Be The Secretary Of State - That All Struck Me As Inane And Stupid.

Now In My View, If You Were To Line Up The Presidents In The Order Of Who Made The Greatest Accomplishments, You'd Put Lyndon Johnson In That Arena With Both Roosevelts Probably, And [abraham] Lincoln And So On. But The Idea That Lyndon Johnson Was Operating As A Free Agent And Coming Up With These Ideas On His Own Is Nonsense.

In A World As Out Of Balance As This World, Everyone Can Find Something To Do. And The Question Isn't Can You Do Everything; The Question Is, Can You Do Anything?

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.