I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Communism is one of the options that can improve peoples lives.

It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your destructive past behind you but to continue to take harassment from society and from police for your past.

His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive and once for attacking a tractor tread.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.