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

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.