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" 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. "

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" When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. "

" If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? "

" There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power. "

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

" Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. "

" 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. "

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

" Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. "

" There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. "

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

" Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal. "

" We all do better when we all do better. "

" I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party. "

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" I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politics is not about power. "

" Without trying, I'm different. "

" We can remake the world daily. "

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

" The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy. "

" 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. "

" Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. "