It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

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

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.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

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.