If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

Love is holy.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

I wear dark sunglasses when I want my head to look more like a limousine.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

If my career were a hairstyle, it would be helmet-head.

On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.

Tommy Dorsey would walk up to you if you had a tuxedo on and make sure you didn't have on white socks.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.