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.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

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

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.