We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.

I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.

The climate is not tomorrow. The climate is a year off or maybe 10 years off. So we have to be really clear that we're solving the crisis of economic insecurity at the same time.

We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.

In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.

I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.