“I love my country, not my government.”

“You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate mur”

“Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.”

“I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...”

“In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?”

“We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. Prohibiting something do...”

“In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to gu...”

“Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.”

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words ...”

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”

“Voting is a civic sacrament.”

“In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.”