Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
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.
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.
When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.