The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.