And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Everybody's seen a stream or a wood they knew replaced by a strip mall.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Music is an escape for me.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.