Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.