I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

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.

I reject get-it-done, make-it-happen thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand others better.

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

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe