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.

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.

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

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

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)

He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

I would say Gary Snyder, who is from my part of the world as a poet and environmental thinker, will be read just as Henry Thoreau as John Muir will continue to be read.

There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.

Good kitchen equipment is expensive, but most items last a lifetime and will pay for themselves over and over again

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.