I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.

We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.

We must challenge to fight at every level, including Congress and to make that challenge political and to organize as a political party is how we get traction.

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.

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

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.