The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

Voting for the lesser of two evils is voting for your own enslavement.

When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.

If you don’t prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you’ve lost nothing.

Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.

Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

You have psychopaths and sociopaths in charge.

When were we the most egalitarian country in the world? When we had the Glass/Steagal Act, which prevented the banks from becoming the criminal operations that they've become.

Far too few have much too much, and way too many have much too little!

When people get hungry and desperate, things get ugly. And I'll tell you where it's really going to get ugly: crime is going to go to levels we've never seen before.

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

I am so glad that I get to maintain a relatively down-to-earth lifestyle.

...99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

The people who are making you feel under attack is your union leadership, and they're doing it for politically intense reasons.

All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.