The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.