My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.

The beauty of learning is that it liberates us from poverty.

I explored alternate states of consciousness at one period of my life through psychedelics, as was the fashion with all my friends.

Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.

When I was a kid, I liked Superman. When I got a little older, I liked Wolverine. And then I found girls.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.