There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit.

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

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

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.