We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

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

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

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

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.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

We're not going to have real security until we invest in our children.

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

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

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Politics is not left, right or center It's about improving people's lives.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

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

We all do better, when we all do better.

Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?