We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

I think most Americans are ready for waging peace and not just brutalizing our foreign policy which is boomeranging against us.

Secrecy destroys accountability.

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.

The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.