The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

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.

Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.

all we see today in name of love it not that lust is sold in name of love

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.

When life gives you lemons...add melted butter, toasted paprike and dip some lobster in it!

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are.

Writing is a form of mischief.