It's easy to be negative.
I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.
Activism has always been the driving force for change.
Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.
The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.
No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.
The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore.
I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.
I'm very proud and grateful to have the support of so many elected Vermonters and former officials. Two former governors, the current governor, the current other senator. I really appreciate that. And I think it's because they've worked with me, they've seen what I do. They know what kind of a colleague I am. They want me as their partner in the White House. And that's exactly what I will do.
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms. . . And what does one form matter any more than another?. . . Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea. . . from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.