A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

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

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

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.