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.

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.

Rage, recover, repeat.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us