We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.

I don't feel that I've been hampered by [ racism or discrimination], and the reason why is that we reach out to people on the basis of where everyone meets, and try to build common cause on that basis. Because of that, I think we've cut through some of the issues that normally divide people.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

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