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

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

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

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.

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

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?