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

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

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

"Power has to be insecure to be responsive."

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

"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."

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

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

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

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

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

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship."

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

"Your best teacher is your last mistake."

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

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

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

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

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