Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It’s to create more leaders.