But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

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

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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.

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