It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

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.

You have to learn to read between the lies.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.