Without trying, I'm different.

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.

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

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

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 Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citizens?