Bill Ayers

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

— Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

— Bill Ayers

I don't regret setting bombs.

— Bill Ayers

I didn't kill innocent people.

— Bill Ayers

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

— Bill Ayers

I was a militant.

— Bill Ayers

I have an addiction to caffeine.

— Bill Ayers

Politicians are conservative by nature.

— Bill Ayers

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

— Bill Ayers

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

— Bill Ayers

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

— Bill Ayers

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

— Bill Ayers

I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.

— Bill Ayers

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

— Bill Ayers

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

— Bill Ayers

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

— Bill Ayers

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

— Bill Ayers

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

— Bill Ayers

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

— Bill Ayers

Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

— Bill Ayers

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

It's the connection between schools and communities that creates greatness in schools.

— Bill Ayers

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will…

— Bill Ayers

If you were against slavery in 1840 and a white person, you would have been against the law, the Bible, your church,…

— Bill Ayers

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other…

— Bill Ayers

I don't know that I ever bought into the "American dream." I was a child of privilege. I grew up in the…

— Bill Ayers

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates.…

— Bill Ayers

You will be raising these kids in your mind your whole life. And they will change you. Your little contribution to it…

— Bill Ayers

[Barack] Obama doesn't disappoint me, because all during the campaign he said, I'm a pragmatic, middle-of-the-road, compromising politician.

— Bill Ayers

We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to…

— Bill Ayers

Now you may like the images of long-haired hippies running in the streets throwing tear gas canisters, but we didn't end the…

— Bill Ayers

[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge!…

— Bill Ayers

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When…

— Bill Ayers

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told…

— Bill Ayers

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have…

— Bill Ayers

We all want to believe this American pastoral, but there's more to it. We have to be willing to exile ourselves from…

— Bill Ayers

I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could…

— Bill Ayers

[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who…

— Bill Ayers

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to…

— Bill Ayers

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

— Bill Ayers