It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

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

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

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.

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.