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A society with more justice needs less charity.

Obama & McCain differ, but neither takes on corporations.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.

The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

To know and no to do is not to know.

Families are incubators for citizen activists.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect
they want to go with the winners.

The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.

Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.

The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity ...

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

When strangers start acting like neighbors ... communities are reinvigorated.

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Everything will be solar in 30 years.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights ... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent?

A wasteful defense is a weak defense.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

The corporations are worried about their reputational damage and a lot of the social media inflicts that, but it's hard to measure it.

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It's to create more leaders.

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

The more you talk, the less you'll have to say.
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations

Capitalism will always survive, because socialism will be there to save it.

Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.