- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Donkeys
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
- Corporations
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- Nov 07, 2020
The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020