[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

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.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began

I can only strive for what is important

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.

Spider or gum? Spider or gum? I thought quickly trying to come up with a believable excuse when I blurted out, “I swallowed a spider!” What? I swallowed a spider? What the hell is wrong with me?!

It's essential you create a fiery will from within--harness that power of decisiveness--and choose to be your strongest self.

Alone with thoughts of what should have long been forgotten, I let myself be carried away into the silent screams of delirium.

Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

It's your life; live it well.