I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

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.

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

Have you considered that some of your greatest heartaches and hardships might actually be the best things that ever happened to you in the long run?

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

I admire tremendously those people who work consistently at the same jobs.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

Friendship is like standing on wet cement. The longer you stay, the harder it's to leave, and you can never go without leaving your footprints behind.

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.