Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

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.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Don't know whether I said the right things but I tried to! I have got to get used to it but I have said this before, what appears in cold print isn't necessarily what you actually say.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level of one cell.