Bill Ayers

“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.”

“I don't regret setting bombs.”

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

“I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.”

“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.”

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

“I voted for Obama and I was delighted that he's been elected.”

“I have an addiction to caffeine.”

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

“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.”

“Nixon probably was a nice guy.”

“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”

“Terrorists destroy randomly.”