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

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

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

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.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.