We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Everything comes down to Dollars

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

We want a Republican majority in the house and the senate, there's no question.

I don't like being lied to.

It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.