National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.

The reason that democracies always defeat dictatorships is because they're open to debate. We should never allow Washington to say, 'Shut up, get in line and wave the flag.'

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.