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.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

We must strive to become good ancestors.

We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

People have got to show up, showing up at meetings, rallies, marches, City Council, courtrooms. You've got to show up.