America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those people are now in rebellion. It's not just poor people they are holding down but the middle class, as well. I have a favorite bumper sticker I saw on a pickup truck last year in Austin. It said, "Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?"

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

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