It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.

We're seeing the convergence of a big, corporate party right now. A sort of bipartisan merger under the figure of Hillary Clinton.

I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.

The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.

We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.

If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.

We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.