The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.