You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

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.

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

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

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.