It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

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.

Stars don't beg the sky to shine.

If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

"A date," Jace repeated. "Often a 'boring thing you have to memorize in history class," but in this case,' 'an offer of a n evening of blisteringly white-hot romance with yours truly.'"

America doesn't make product anymore. You have other countries devalue their currencies. They make it impossible.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.