What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to affluent constituents than to middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of income distribution have no apparent effect at all on the Senate's roll call votes.

They're counting on your patriotism to distract you from their plunder. They're counting on you to be standing at attention with your hand over your heart, pledging allegiance to the flag, while they pick your pocket!

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

There's hardly a more bitter pill to take than when a President disappoints the people who most believed in him.

Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.