The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Outer beauty is transient, but the inner beauty of a kind heart gets brighter with time. Be kind and get prettier forever.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation...I hereby declare my candidacy.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

What we eat is a matter of life and death.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.