It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

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.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

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.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

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.

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.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out.

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

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.

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.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.

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.

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

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.

Its hard for the donkeys to win the race if theyre going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

I attended a very small junior high and specially in the end that became a disaster. The principal was pretty senile and a drunk, so the children more or less runned the school.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.

The war on Iraq was a disaster, clearly carried out under false pretences.