The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Are you okay?" Kelly cried."I shot dinner, " Nick said.Kelly snorted. "Look, Hannibal, you can shoot back if they 're shooting at you, but it's still not okay to eat them afterward.

She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.

The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.