If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

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

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.