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.

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.

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 only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

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.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal

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