If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

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!

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

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

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

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