Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?