Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
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.
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.
Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.
We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.
Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.