My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country. . . But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e" tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.
If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.
The professionals must set a good example.
Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red. . . [while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.