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Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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

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

We've got to go to the people with bold ideas and candidates of conviction - we've got to be hotter than high school love.

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

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

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

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

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

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

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

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

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

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

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

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.

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

The water won't clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

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

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

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

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.

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

You have to learn to read between the lies.

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

If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

The corporation cannot be ethical, its only responsibility is to make a profit.

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.

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

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.