Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

There is no business on a dead planet