We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer and closer to being both one corporate party with two heads having different labels.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

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

Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society.

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.