“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.”

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

“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.”