Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?