I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

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.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.