That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

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.

A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.