“He was a strong believer in the big-tent approach. He was outspoken and aggressive but had a populist approach ? less about issues and more about getting people involved.”
Phil English
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
Stacey Charter
“I've always been a grass roots candidate. I've always been a populist. The fact that there's a big influx of money (from outside District 71), that doesn't concern me at all. I'd much rather have the kind of support I have.”
Susan King
“Gore is putting himself as the populist candidate to fight against those big companies. You'd have to say Wall Street, right now, views Gore with fear and trepidation because he's attacked those industries in his campaign. What's been very strong has been healthcare so healthcare stocks are telling you Bush is going to win. Money managers are putting their money up front.”
Vince Farrell
“Outspoken by whom?”
Dorothy Parker
“[Lyndon] was the most outspoken, straightforward, determined person I'd ever encountered. I knew I'd met something remarkable-but I didn't know quite what.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“POPULIST, n. A fossil patriot of the early agricultural period, found in the old red soapstone underlying Kansas; characterized by an uncommon spread of ear, which some naturalists contend gave him the power of flight, though Professors Morse and Whitney, pursuing independent lines of thought, have ingeniously pointed out that had he possessed it he would have gone elsewhere. In the picturesque speech of his period, some fragments of which have come down to us, he was known as "The Matter with Kansas."”
Ambrose Bierce
