[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

The threats are coming to this country, which will, of course, increase the massive industry known as the anti-terrorism industry, and crush our civil liberties and civil rights, And it's devouring our priorities here in communities all over the country which are in such disrepair and are so neglected in terms of public works and public services.