Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!