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 [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

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.

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

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

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

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.