As H.l. Mencken Once Said,

Archie Bunker Used To Call Me 'the Laziest White Kid He'd Ever Met.'

That's The Heart Of It: My Shows Were Not That Controversial With The American People. They Were Controversial With The People Who Think For The American People.

I Stop And Look At Traffic Accidents. I Won't Hang Around, But When I Hear Something Is Terrible, As Bad As It Is, I've Gotta Look At It.

We Had A Judeo-christian Ethic Hanging Around A Couple Thousand Years That Didn't Help Erase Racism At All. So The Notion Of The Little Half-hour Comedy Changing Things Is Something I Think Is Silly.

In One Question You Are Expressing A World Of Opinion. Because It Is You Who Thinks That America Has Been Mistakenly Starting These Conflicts. I Happen To Agree With You, And I Will Repeat What Your Question Suggested...we Have Mistakenly Gotten Into One Fracas After Another. Why We Do That [united States Has Insisted On Keeping Up A String Of Enemies, And The Wars Associated With Creating Those Enemies], I Think It's Because We're Afraid To Look In The Mirror And Understand Who We Are.