Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

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.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.

I would show up at any venue that had an open mic.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.