We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

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.

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

She laughed, and the duke might actually have smiled, though one could never be certain.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

In the end, I cared about him so much that I just thought he deserved someone who loved him more than I did.

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.

Photographers undervalue the use of a wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography.

You probably shouldn't laugh any more.