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

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

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

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

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

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

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

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

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

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind, ' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

Being around blind people is always a little frustrating to me because I know they have no idea how handsome I am.