You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.