I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

There's such an aggressively apolitical movement in the US that anything that smells of being political - even the term "political" is so ridiculous, when you think about it. The worst part of governing, the political side, is the grossest part, so that's what they call it. So anything that reeks of that immediately gets tuned out by 70 percent of the population.

Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.

White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.