Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

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.

You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.