On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.