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

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

'Champagne' and 'breathmint' are the first two words all Oscar winners hear.

I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

Halliburton is not a 'company' doing business in Iraq. It is a war profiteer, bilking millions from the pockets of average Americans. In past wars they would have been arrested – or worse.