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.

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.

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.

Jesus never made miracles the center of His gospel.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Believe, obey, fight.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.