Bill Ayers

I don't regret setting bombs. ”

I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things. ”

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice. ”

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it. ”

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. ”

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. ”

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. ”

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans. ”

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire. ”

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. ”