I think the Sierra Club is the environmental group that has the best chance of really accomplishing things. It's well known, and it actually gets down to doing the dirty work of protecting the environment.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.