The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to work for them.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.

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.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.