Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

You get told to look before you leap. But if you are too careful you may end up just looking.

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

Freedom is self-determination.

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.