The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

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.

Kill the boy and let the man be born.

Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense.

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

Two things that I think matter are gratitude and joy.