You can’t do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

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.

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.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that’s got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

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

Well, I’ve been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that’s about enough.

Ronald Reagan’s idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I’ve done for Texas, pay attention. That’s no idle threat.

It’s an essential fight librarians are making, an age-old fight; yours is a battle for civilization. It’s a fight for our country’s founding values.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn’t make a good landfill.