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...

Unpatriotic corporations abandon our country and shift industries abroad, along with what is left of their allegiance to our country and our community,

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

I think … Gore and Bush are, shall we say, chicken here.

I would say to Democratic voters the following: If you think that a third party candidacy is going to take away votes and cost the Democrats the election, you’ve got the power entirely within your...

[On CBS’s] Face the Nation, … instead of a debate between the drab and the dreary.

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

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

How much longer will you allow this $20 part to imperil the public?

Al Gore thinks he is entitled to your votes. Al Gore thinks that we’re supposed to be helping him get elected, … I’ve got news for Al Gore — if you can’t beat the bumbling...

As the clear and active Republican front runner for 2008, McCain is not just a conservative. Otherwise why would he be so controversial among the party’s base?

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, … and it must be ended — not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Ford Motor Company’s sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists’ safety.

For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

[Washington is] corporate-occupied territory, … We need more political and civic energies inside the campaign to challenge this two-party duopoly that’s trending toward one-party districts all over the country.

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

cleanup drive in Washington, to break the grip of the permanent corporate government that makes good people in the Congress not fulfill their own potential.

I can no longer stomach the systemic political decay that has weakened our democracy,

I’ve always been independent, it’s a thing with me, … I don’t want to get involved in these internal Green Party disputes, that’s for them to settle … I want to extravert the party’s agenda.

We get one Republican vote for every two Democratic votes, some polls have told us.

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

The citizen activists have no idea what they can discover just by thumbing through it.

We don’t have a democracy. An election is supposed to involve choice. We don’t have a choice.

What good is [Al] Gore if he can’t beat Bush? I mean, Gore is beating Gore.

After careful thought and my desire to retire our supremely selected president, I’ve decided to run as an independent candidate for president, … Meet the Press.

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.

This assumption that my votes only come from the Democrats is simply not true,

Not a single candidate who I am aware of ever looks at the American people and says to them, ‘Do you want to be more powerful against the rich and powerful? That’s why this campaign...

Only Al Gore can beat Al Gore, … it won’t matter who wins.

Microsoft doesn’t respect the antitrust laws, and it has amply demonstrated that it can’t be trusted. The company has shown its contempt for any court-imposed changes in its conduct. If the government ends the antitrust...

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

Taxpayers have been tricked into paying the oil companies and their wealthy investors billions through tax subsidies.