Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

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

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.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.

Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.