- Tom Hayden: I think Jack Newfield said it best when he said, 'After that
- [Bobby Kennedy's assassination]
- Tom Hayden: we became might-have-beens, a generation of might-have beens.'
- Pat Buchanan: I thinks there's an amount of bitterness and animosity that our generation is going to carry to its grave.
- Todd Gitlin: '68 is the cusp between the hope and the rage and it's in many ways the years when the most benign hopes burned out or were obliterated.