I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.