While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

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.

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.

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.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

You’re not his, ” Bryan said firmly. “Bry, I don’t know whose I am anymore.

The only sacrifice that costs you nothing is staring at ugly girls.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.