Apolitical Quote by Bill Ayers

In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of troops to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts…

— Robyn Davidson

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

— Joe Dante

Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? And cell phones and beepers was the new trends? When Koch was the Mayor…

— Biz Markie

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally…

— Charles Murray

The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from…

— Trent Lott

“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political…

— Irving Kristol

We had people who did housing, people who did anti-war, people who did schools. Everyone operated in their own niche, but not separately. We…

— Lynne Stewart

In the 50s and early 60s, community was incredibly important to people.

— Rita Tushingham

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

My idea of what was going on in politics was driven by activism. I came out when I was 17, and right away I…

— Rachel Maddow

“Above all, the new Left-- and its overwhelmingly youthful constituency -- rejected the inherited collectivism of its predecessor. To an earlier generation of reformers…

— Tony Judt