Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.

I hear people who are worried about climate change tell me, oh, Congress that's gridlock, that's not where the action is.

What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.