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

• Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
• Your best teacher is your last mistake.
• I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
• John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
• 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.'
• 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 of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
• 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.
• 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 of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
• 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 are nonviolent drug users.