We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country..

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a….

I dare to imagine a country where every child I hold in my hands, are all God's children, regardless of the color of their skin, regardless of whethe….

I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution..

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota po….

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party..

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their commun….

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves an….

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were r….

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this….

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices..

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people..

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives..

The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.

Without trying, I'm different..

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation..

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future..

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine altern….

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning..

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives..

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. Th….