We're trying to convey how much easier it is than most people think, especially young people, to turn the country around if they focus on the levers, if they focus on Congress, and state legislatures.

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.

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

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

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

Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two.

[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.