Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.