When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

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 think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.

You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed a law to that effect. You want to end poverty and when people see how relatively easy it is to end poverty. And one way is to increase the minimum wage: catch up; it's been frozen for so many years.

We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.

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

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