The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

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.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

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

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

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

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.