Our democracy if self-cleansing. If you don't like it, be a candidate, or support a candidate.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.