Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

It isn’t easy, ” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can dois say really easy things to each other.

Oh what a shame, if she thought any beauty that she has came from him. She didn't understand the beauty of her own skin.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home.

One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.