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.

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.

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 don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

Intelligence, if it is clever in the direction of the better, is responsible for the greatest benefits of all.

As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.

here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously.

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.