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 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.

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business.

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.