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.

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

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