Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

I can tell you that the job of trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is about as complicated and difficult as trying to hide it in the first place.