The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

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.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

Without trying, I'm different.