In city rooms and in the bars where newspeople drink, you can find out what's going on. You can't find it in the papers.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Reading Ehrenreich is good for the soul.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.