The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
If God hadn’t meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn’t have invented dentists.
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.
The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
Let’s not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.
A wasteful defense is a weak defense.
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.
Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.
The only true aging is the erosion of one’s ideals.
The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.
We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
People are interested in family traditions, and I think a lot of families can benefit from some of the ways that my parents dealt with the challenges of raising four kids.
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates – except for Dean and Kucinich – are campaigning.
Families are incubators for citizen activists.
The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
When people ask, ‘Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?’ My answer is not an answer most people get: It’s because their power developed from laws that enriched them.
The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.