A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

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.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

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.

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

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

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.