Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

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

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.

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.

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

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