Without trying, I'm different.

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.

The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

Honor is a balancing act and only the heart can strike that balance.

Unless you learn to lead, you will always be at the mercy of someone else to guide you.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!