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

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

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

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

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

...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?

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.