The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

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

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

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

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.