I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

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

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

We can remake the world daily.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.