You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

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.'

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

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

We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many years to pass before people are grown up ... Adolescence is nurtured and prolonged by educational processes and by industry that has found a bonanza in embracing the adolescent population and fortifying 'adolescent values.' This prolongation of adolescence robs the country of the population group having the most risk takers, and the highest ideals.

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.