"I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming."

"Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties."

"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."

"No one in their right mind can say to me with a straight face that the Patriot Act has not aggregated the Fourth Amendment."

"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect."

"It is a quiet truth that justice is the harmonious balance between individual liberty and collective good — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the journey is far more important than the destination."

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves."