To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.