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.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real