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

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.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Don’t follow any leader

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

There is nothing I can say that I haven't thought before.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?