There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Without trying, I'm different.