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

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

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.

Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.

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 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.

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