I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Ronald Reagan, whatever his pros and cons were, was a public servant in the end.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

What was happening was the war on drugs. That was the primary culprit I could see that was getting in the way of black progress.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on "All the Patriarchal Bullshit.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

Would I were in an alehouse in London.