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.

What's happening is that the will of the people, the declared opinion of the people, who want more agendas, more ideas, more sensible redirections reforms in our country, are being thwarted by the mechanism of keeping third-party candidates, who are on more than enough States theoretically to get an electoral vote majority, to keep them off the mass media, the commercial media, to keep them off the debates.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

[Jill Stein] want a global treaty to halt climate change that adds teeth and ends destructive energy extraction.

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

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