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

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

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.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!