Your best teacher is your last mistake.

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

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

passion to limit the liability of predatory corporations toward their injured or defrauded victims.

I used to think of California as in the vanguard. Now its school spending is among the bottom 10. We need to increase school funding by more than the trivial amounts being talked about.

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...

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

The real complaint in Oregon was the way the secretary of state, the partisan Democrat, worked overtime to keep us off the ballot,

send a message across the country.

Of course not, no. Less chance than John Kerry and George W. Bush dropping out.

Day after day on television, Mr. Bush comes on and goes after [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein,

Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money...

This commission is a political organization designed to support the two major parties and shut out third party and independent candidates, … We need to reinvigorate our democracy by having real debates — not joint...

dishonors this country’s traditional respect for free speech.

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

I don’t want to exaggerate it, so I’ll just say massively more.

better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing...

Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

Let me assure MasterCard’s executives that the last thing I want consumers to think is that my campaign is in the business of selling credit cards,

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Gore and Bush couldn’t say no to that.

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

It’s time for the American people to realize the Muslim Americans are only the latest religious and ethnic group to feel the brunt of political hysteria and abuse,

Thank you for welcoming me to the poorest major city in the United States.

People want positive politics demonstrating changes and reforms instead of the politics of personality and personal acrimony enveloped in sterile media forays about the tactics of the day.

But you’ve heard him speak about Saddam. For every question we put to the president about domestic needs he has one answer: attack Iraq, attack Iraq, attack Iraq. Psychologists would call this the obsessive-compulsive syndrome.

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

How did we ever end up with a democracy where challengers to the entrenched corrupt political system in our country cannot get to tens of millions of voters without going through a gate whose key...

if Democrats are disappointed with the returns, they need to take a long, close look at their party and the empty campaign waged by Al Gore.

a giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

Perish the phrase ‘free trade,’ … There’s no such thing as free trade with dictatorial regimes who keep costs down by brute force and lure U.S. companies to those countries.

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

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

A seller-sovereign economy includes sellers who are monopolistic or oligopolistic without being confronted by the ultimate consumers who are organized in monopsonistic or ologopsonistic modes. It is an economy where enormous skill, artifice, and resources...

We grow up corporate, not civic. For example, we were led to believe that most crime comes from the street.

The bill is anti-consumer and anti-community, … It will mean higher prices and fewer choices for low-, moderate- and middle-income families across the nation.

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

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

Right away, on November 8, the Green Party’s a major watchdog party on those two parties.

It’s just breaking us up. The heart that’s been beating since 1906 couldn’t make it until (Feb. 7). She put a lot of forces into motion directly and through her children that I think created...

You can have a lot more leverage in this country in another way, and that is by determining the margin of victory between Democrats and Republicans. It’s not a spoiler role, it’s a leverage role.

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

One of the justifications for this campaign is to preserve and expand the right of third parties and independent candidates to challenge the two-party duopoly system, … I see it as a civil liberties issue...

We’re going to do what the majority of people really like even if they aren’t going to vote for a third party, which is to establish a viable third party to keep those two parties...

These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers.

Bush and Gore talk incessantly about caring for children, but they’re not following through with action.

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.’

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

Prudence dictates you quickly issue a consumer advisory,

This is a medical malpractice crisis. Over 80,000 Americans, 220 every day, die from medical negligence. Hundreds of thousands are injured.