The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

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.

The well-defined principles last when time moves on. However, a progressive organization or society will love to break the old or hidden rules in order to move forward.

Life itself is nothing but relationship.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.