It Is Time For A Sustainable Energy

My Philosophy Comes From A Worldview That Looks At The World As One. It's A Holistic View That Sees The World As Interconnected And Interdependent And Integrated In So Many Different Ways, Which Informs My Politics.

I Took The Position Of Organizing 126 Democrats Who Voted Against The Iraq War Resolution. And I Happen To Think It Was The Right Position. Today We're Faced With Over 500 Casualties, A Cost Of Over $200 Billion, And It Could Rise The Casualties Could Go Into The Thousands And The Costs Could Go Over A Half Trillion If We Stay There For Years, As A Number Of People On This Stage Intend To See Happen.

First Of All, The Social Security Money Belongs To Main Street, Not To Wall Street. It Needs To Be Said Very Clearly Here That Privatization Is Off The Table... Social Security, As A Matter Of Fact, Is A Better Investment Now Than The Stock Market. There's A Higher Return. There's Guaranteed Cost-of-living Increases. Privatization You Have To Worry About The Value Of Your Account.

We Are Spending Millions, If Not Billions Of Dollars Every Year On Programs To Fight The Childhood Obesity Epidemic While Giving Almost $2 Billion Of Taxpayer Money To The Junk Food And Fast Food Industries To Make The Epidemic Worse.

Peace Is Not Just The Absence Of War, It Is The Active Presence Of A Capacity For Love And Compassion, And Reciprocity. It Is An Awareness That Our Lives Are Not To Be Lived Simply For Ourselves Through Expressing Our Individuality, But We Confirm The Purpose Of Our Lives Through The Work Of Expressing Our Shared Sense Of Community In A Purposeful And Practical Way; To Sustain Our Own Lives We Sustain The Lives Of Others - In Family, In A Community Of Neighborhoods Called A City, And In A Community Of Nations Called The World.