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.

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.

Give Nature a vacuum and she will try to fill it. Give her localized pressure and she will try to disperse it. She is forever seeking a balance she can never achieve, never happy with what she's got.

I enjoy sports in person.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed.