We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Hope for the best and work for it.

Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

I very much believe in values-based leadership, and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values. They have nothing to do with race or even with political parties. Secondly, I think nothing substitutes for the power of the grassroots by showing them the courtesy of going to them where they are and inviting them to take part in the political process.

I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country.