I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.