A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.