I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

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.

[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?

Leaders attract potential leaders.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].