American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

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.

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.

My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.

Business is a bed of roses but need to remove thorns all the time

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

You have to do the things you are most afraid of, otherwise you are just half a human being.

When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

In this global war against extremists who use murder as a weapon, Iraq is now the central front.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.