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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.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

Sixty-four percent of people polled want a four-way debate. People like debate. They like competition. They like not to fall asleep in front of the TV set, watching the drab debate the dreary.

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

I think people should vote their conscience. We have a chance to build a major third party, we have a chance to build a progressive political party.

We’re testing the waters, … It’s a high probability but that is yet to be determined.

Often you used the name of your home town as a metaphor for your 1992 presidential campaign, ‘The man from Hope. Well, I am sure that many Katrina-displaced families now homeless, or huddling with friends...

They’re going to have to reach out or they’re going to lose votes.

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

I think if Gore does Bush in on the first debate, Bush would be smart to open it up to four debates. Because if he can’t handle Al Gore maybe he wants to let me...

A ‘no’ vote will potentially save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

All these candidates talk about children. George W. Bush has pictures with minority kids all the time while he lets them rot in Texas. When are we going to decide that enough is enough?

Greens all over the globe will need to develop the facilities of democracy for voters, workers, consumers, small taxpayers and the environment so that all people may participate in power to advance justice, peace and...

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.

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

It’s quite pioneering, having all those actors play Lennon. That’s hard to pull off.

Is that what happened? Well, that’s unfortunate.

There’s a tremendous bias in state laws against third parties and independent candidates, bred by the two major parties, who passed these laws. They don’t like competition. So it’s like climbing a cliff with a...

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...

Can you imagine (Gore is) in a neck-and-neck race with a bumbling Republican governor from Texas, with such a horrific record? … What does that say about the Democratic Party?

Over the next four and one half months, this campaign must challenge the campaigns of the Bush and Gore duopoly in every locality by running with the people,

Remember. Your purpose is not only to serve but to swerve.

I think the American people are going to fall asleep watching the drab debate the dreary.

The shortcomings of America’s political leaders do not stop at our borders.

was to discuss issues of interest to the daily lives of the American public — to put the focus on the human race, not the presidential horse race.

Any diversion from that, even rooted in principle, interferes with that goal,

of increasing the number of presidential debates and including more voices in those debates.

All these candidates talk about children,

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Do you think Gore is entitled to any votes? Do you think Bush is entitled — am I entitled to any votes? We have to earn them,

[Enrich argued and won the 6th Circuit case, which he says] casts a dark cloud over incentives all across the country. … blow to corporate welfare … and the extortionate demands by large companies for...

Let’s say that the situation in your home town, where some say the trailers in the mud are deteriorating, is a special responsibility of yours.

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

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

Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their losses…in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles, and mismanagement, just like a government. We should be able...

They’re very careful,

I think there’s a great need for a progressive candidate for the presidency, … The two parties are very much dialing for the same commercial dollars. The two parties are ignoring issues like a living...

Why do you have to stimulate the economy when there’s huge unused capacity, when there’s plenty of capital around, and when interest rates are at historic lows?

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

O’Neill is in the minority. They take it as a deduction. If it isn’t compensation, then what is it?

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

We now have a two-party system that is overwhelmed with its own arrogance and complacency, … It offers little more than Band-Aids for some of the nation’s problems and does not project a sense of...