Families are incubators for citizen activists.

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.

Holy fear of God is to depart from evil.

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

Let us have peace.

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

I will never stop working on Spanish-language projects because that's my language, and because I'm a Latina and Mexican before anything else.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.