America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to just how stupid it is -- it'll drive you to use drugs.

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

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 Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.

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

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.