The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

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!

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

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

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers