It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
The only difference between a pigeon and the american farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a john deere.
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.