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

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.

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.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.