We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.