I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.

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

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

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

Militaristic foreign policy is destroying America.