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

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

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.

If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'