I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

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

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.