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

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.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.