Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

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 are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

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 right.

We all do better, when we all do better.

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 people's lives.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

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 the beauty of their dreams.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

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 about doing well for the people.

I'm not interested in serial dating I'd honestly rather be single.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.