The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

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

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities, including, for example, a major public works program to employ millions of people. The Democrats want that. The Republicans may be pressured from back home to want it, but it hasn't happened yet under the Obama administration.