Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

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

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

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.

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

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.