Politics is not about power..

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans..

We can remake the world daily..

Without trying, I'm different..

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..

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy..

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

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice..

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives..

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

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of….

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….

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

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..

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children..

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….

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 a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power..

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best ki….

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision..