Occupation: Former United States Senator Birth: July 21, 1944 Death: October 25, 2002
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is ab….
I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. Thi….
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we ….
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral….
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia..
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible..
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives..
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the….
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human li….
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. Th….
We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice..
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of….
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy..
Politics is not about power..
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities..
Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live..
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development,….
The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in th….
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves..