Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

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

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

The debate corporation is a corporation. It's funded by corporations. It's relayed by media corporations to the public. It's created by the two parties, which are corporations. We should have public presidential debates all over America run by public institutions.

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