Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

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

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

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.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

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.