The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.

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.

Every morning, introduce one positive thought into your mind. Be persistent with it until it becomes your habit. It will change your life.

I understand (finally) that God does not REACT to prayers or petitions. He has ACTED. It is already done.

His manners are old-fashioned, the work of a vigilant mother.

I don't wanna be the joker who makes eyes full of tears in the end

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

For me, I feel like, if the right movie comes along, I'd do it again. It's not about the budget. It's about whether it's something that I'm excited to work on.

In each of us dwells a pilgrim. It is the part of us that longs to have direct contact with the sacred.

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.