Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

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.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

One day at Princeton, I noticed there were dead birds on the pavement between the campus buildings, where very large trees were. It turns out it was DDT. At the time, in the early '50s, no one thought DDT was dangerous to anybody but insects. I went down to the Daily Princetonian, the college paper, and tried to persuade them to do a story. They said, "Naw, there's nothing wrong." But that taught me a very important lesson. One, that newspaper people can get very jaded. Second, that you might know something, like an expert chemistry professor, you are not going to apply what you know.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

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

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.