I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
“My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.”
“I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.”