Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

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

Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.