I have admired US Senator Bernie Sanders for years. Clear-headed and progressive in his views he has the mettle to be a real statesman in the mold of Adlai Stevenson, Sam Erwin and Benjamin Franklin, even though he is better known at this point for speaking out on other subjects.

Today he intimated on the Rachel Maddow show that he is considering a run for the presidency. An Independent he caucuses with Democrats but does not really espouse either party.

Here are some of this thoughts on corporatism:

"In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign."

"If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big exist."

"You know, I think that many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In truth that's not the case. The real truth is that Wall Street regulates the Congress."