Quotes by Fred Newman

“We improvise. Things are never as good or bad as you think.”

“He arrives early and talks to people, getting a sense of Americana.”

“[Leaders of the center also told Van Meir that they belonged to a secret] inner Marxist group ... They would say those were political allegations from their enemies.”

“[Van Meir said she ultimately concluded that the therapy was merely] the bait ... I believe they will use any way they can to get kids involved. For them, the end justifies the means.”

“We are behind in our courtroom security, ... We haven’t had anything serious happen, but we want to try to prevent this.”

“Once we get her here and sit down and talk with her, we hope shell cooperate with us.”

“an opportunity to explore our countrys uniquely conflicted and contradictory history of intimacy and separatism - Americas love/hate relationship with itself.”

“For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jeffersons purity, categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those revelations, some of them have retreated from their former position of It didnt happen only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. Thats part of what I wanted to convey by the American way of the title.”

“[He] put his foot in his mouth, and then we told him, As long as you have your foot in your mouth, take a big bite out of your toe. And he backed down.”

“I still love it. I am not tempted yet.”