Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

We can remake the world daily.

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.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers