Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.
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.
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
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 people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
We all do better, when we all do better.
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.
We’re not going to have real security until we invest in our children.