Politics is not about power.

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.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Depression means that you have no point of view.

Always have old memories, and young hopes.

Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

I've screwed up and I've overcommitted and it's typical of me.

My daughters been picked up so many times she's starting to grow handles

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.