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.

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.

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.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

If love came easy, it wouldn't mean half so much.

Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

If Sasha’s threatened, Astrid’s upset. If Astrid’s upset, I’m going to kill whatever’s upsetting her until she’s happy again. (Zarek)