The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

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.

I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?

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The audience's expectations are ever-present.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

To be a saint is to be yourself.