I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

The pain of retirement means loss.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

So I will stand more steadfastly for the things I stand up for, like people who work for a living. I'd like to be able to stand that way when I go to Congress.

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

My father left us when I was 10, so I had to make enough money for us to be able to live in a house because my brother went in the service during Vietnam and I was sole support of my mother. And she had no skills, really, except to clean other people's houses. So I had to have a bunch of jobs, you know, as well as music.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.