The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. |
The keys to the gate to those tens of millions of Americans are held by the very two parties that small parties are trying to challenge. Never again should we allow this to happen. The choice for the American people should not be between the bad Democrats and worse Republicans. |
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. |
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. |
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. |
The real complaint in Oregon was the way the secretary of state, the partisan Democrat, worked overtime to keep us off the ballot, |
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. |
there are 40 slam dunk states where Republicans or Democrats will win handily. |
There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it. The taxpayers should not have to fund these political conventions. |
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. |
There is, as well, a consumer issue at stake here. Fans have purchased tickets for Eagles' games, in Philadelphia and elsewhere, on the assumption that they will see one of the game's most exciting receivers, so long as he is healthy enough to play. The Eagles' action denies them this opportunity. |
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 slippery rope, ... Meet the Press. |
These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers, |
These were not conscientious objectors. They were belligerent draft dodgers. |
They're going to have to reach out or they're going to lose votes. |