I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
Every program that ever helped working people, from rural electrification to Medicare, was enacted by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. When people tell me they don't like liberals, I ask, "Do you like Social Security? If so, then shut up!"
Don't throw away your conscience.
I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972.
I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.
And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.
Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.