America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be, " making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

You can't have freedom of religion with a religion that hates freedom!

OK. Yoga position 99.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

Start before you’re ready. Good things happen when we start before we’re ready.