Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans and the very dream that is America.

When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.