Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.
All art is propaganda. . . I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.