“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.”

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

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

“There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.”

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

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

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.”