Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

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.

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 represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines