Ain't nothin' in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
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.
Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.
Conservatives have historically seen people falling through the cracks in society and said that's the way things work, survival of the fittest. Liberals see people falling through the cracks and say we've got to do something about those people falling through the cracks so we need a strong government that can provide programs and assist those people. Populists say there shouldn't be any cracks, let's fix them.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
He has put the goober in gubernatorial. (re: Rick Perry).
If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.
If you do not speak up when it matters, when would it matter that you speak?
It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the (US presidential) candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.
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.
Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.
The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
The opposite of courage is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
The original Greek word 'idiotes' referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.
The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.
The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
You have to learn to read between the lies.
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