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.

It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.

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

The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.

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

Your best teacher is your last mistake.