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

It's an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It's a fight for our country's founding values.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

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.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. 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.