There are very significant ways around America on how to break its grip, which is, of course, a way to exclude dissenting voices before tens of millions of people.

You just can't get anything done. You can't get hearings, you can't get legislation, you can't get responses by the regulatory agencies - you can't get anything done. I'm a realist. I don't work harder and harder to get less and less.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

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

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.