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

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

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.

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.

Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

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

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.