Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

We're going to move left and right at the same time.

The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to see in in the next 10 or 20 years, there are people alive today who will see manufacturing in space from moon materials or from asteroids.

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government is just a limited power to make things go better.

I will defend everybody, every man, woman and child who's come to California for a better life and has contributed to the well-being of our state.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we are fossil fuel, that is modernity, modernity has two elements: individualism and oil. Now to move toward a more enlightened sustainable world, we have to transform with lots of technology, with even differences in the way we see the world and how we live in the world. That`s going to take decades.