A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

If our hearts are at war, we would not be able to experience Heaven in our hearts

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.