Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

The Christian Church overwhelmingly - there are exceptions - who choose to call Muhammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too. I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

The U.S. has in its stockpiles more nuclear bombs, chemical and biological weapons, more aircraft, rockets and delivery systems in number and sophistication than the rest of the world combined. Included are twenty commissioned Trident II nuclear submarines any one of which could destroy Europe.