I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history as the generations who knew, but didn't care

It is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

We need to be on a war footing. We need to understand that our nation is in grave danger.

To review ones store is to mow twice.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life