No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
Information is the currency of democracy. It’s denial must always be suspect.
As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
If you know what’s going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the ‘social’ – that is the public, cooperative, societal – element of the program and ‘security’ – the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.
Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect – they want to go with the winners.
Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.
Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans.
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.
The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.
Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.