 As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. |
| What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. |
| Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. |
| It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. |
| The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. |
| 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. |
| I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal. |
| If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them. |
| Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. |
| 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 first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. |
| We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. |
| Politics is not about power. |
| Politics is not about money. |
| The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better. |
| I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. |
| We can remake the world daily. |
| Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives. |
| Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. |
| Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities. |
