Occupation: Former United States Senator Birth: July 21, 1944 Death: October 25, 2002
Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose..
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of….
We all do better, when we all do better..
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an int….
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak..
If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them..
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power..
We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children..
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..
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 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….
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….
We can remake the world daily..
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy..
I do believe that there's going to be a pretty strong consensus for a very strong .. censure resolution..
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….
...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and….
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….
There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans..
The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard..