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

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.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

When we accept ourselves exactly as we are, in exactly this moment, we shift from living for tomorrow to appreciating today.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.