The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.

Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.