And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

What is it you want to do, to put out into the world, that is greater than your fear?

I felt a taste of that other kind of contentment that doesn't come from acquiring information or getting praise or building a resume, the kind that is just there, like a hidden pearl.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

It's easier to make fun of things that people can help doing.

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.