You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

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

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

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.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.