Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able to deselect them.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.

Everything will be solar in 30 years.

Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.