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.
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn’t it more unpatriotic to desecrate the country itself-to pollute, despoil and ravage the air, land and sea.
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, ‘legal’ drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
Nothing can stop the power of an informed citizenry when it is empowered, organized, and motivated.
We’ve got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.