As the nation at last confronts global warming, it is no time for denial, greed, cynicism or pessimism.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

If you take donations from Wall Street, you can't be independent.

In many respects, this country is becoming an oligarchy, with a tiny percentage of America owning the media, owning the country.

When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens.

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

NAFTA, supported by the Secretary cost, us 800,000 jobs nationwide, tens of thousands of jobs in the Midwest. Permanent normal trade relations with China cost us millions of jobs. Look, I was on a picket line in early 1990's against NFATA because you didn't need a PhD in economics to understand that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Mexico making 25 cents an hour.