The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political 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 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.

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Ignore the mean voice in your head. It never does any good - ever.

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire.

Why should we feel sad when the Hindu brothers choose to leave our country? Do we mourn when we have indigestion and materials leave our bodies?

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less of a feminist.