America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

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.

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

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

If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

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

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.