The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

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.

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey

I don't like differentiating between art and commercial cinema.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.

I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.

Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.