I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins. – Norman Lear
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was thats not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. – Norman Lear
In the area were discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. – Norman Lear
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way – the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know – people understand me very well. They also understand theres a very strong bipartisan part in all of this. – Norman Lear