The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.
I think we should make a closer link between domestic policy and an interventionist militaristic foreign policy.
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.
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves.
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.