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

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

I don't regret setting bombs.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

You’re only as strong as your biggest weakness.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The future of punk rock has nothing to do with guitars. Everything interesting that I've heard in years has been nearly all electronic.

No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.

I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.

Dr. Cox mentors the rookie doctors with a spoonful of dirt and then a cup of sugar. I see him as an archetypal descendent of two of my favorite curmudgeonly characters: Lou Grant and Louie De Palma.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.