Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.

In fact, so much of life, as you know, is serendipitous. That's why you better be prepared at any time for anything, because it may happen to you.

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

I was not a public - I was not a thinker. I was a doer.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.