Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

The media isn't only asleep; it doesn't want to know this news, that the people are revolting, in the very best sense of the term, revolting against the thieves in high places and reaching out to each other, which is our great strength.

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.