If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

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.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

Most of the federal government could be shut down.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.