Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.