My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

My mom has obviously had a powerful influence on my life and her voice can describe certain things that I couldn't see in myself.

No longer will we tolerate one job killing delay after another. No longer will we accept a broken system that benefits consultants and lobbyists at the expense of hardworking Americans.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.