While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.