We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

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

Transporting Americans is and should be one of the most important functions our government must address.

If anything, I don't have to convince the American public that we have a broken health-care system. I think the majority of Americans since they have to go through that health-care system, already know it.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few.