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.

We all do better, when we all do better.

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

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

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

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

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.