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" 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. "

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

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

" We can remake the world daily. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politics is not about power. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. "