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

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

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Politics is not about power.

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.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.