The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

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

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

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.