A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen.

When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

If you were to do a line-up of past suitors, it's definitely a very eclectic group, is all I'll say.

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.