Bill Ayers

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

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

“I was involved in the anti-war movement.”

“I have an addiction to caffeine.”

“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 gener...”

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

“Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.”

“Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.”

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

“I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.”

“I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.”

“Terrorists destroy randomly.”

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