Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

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

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

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

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.