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

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

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.

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.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?