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The Conscience of a Liberal
The politics of racist and anti-Semitic hatred had moved into rural America, exploiting the farmers' desperation. Since I was the only Jew actively speaking and organizing with farmers, I mentioned my own Jewish background when appealing to the farmers to 'not let the worst of times bring out the wo…
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.
We do not create the winds and the tides, the conditions that give rise to great social movements. So it is important to achieve power in other ways. And in a representative democracy, it matters whom we elect to office and hold accountable for public policy.
People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support famili…
Politics is what we create by what we do, what we hope for, and what we dare to imagine.
I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
We didn't win by matching pollster against pollster, ad against ad, image maker against image maker. We won by including citizens in an inspiring grassroots campaign.
We should never separate the lives we live from the words we speak.
How can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear from Republicans, and too many Democrats, that we cannot afford to provide a good education for every child, that we cannot afford to provide health security for all our citi…
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives, lessening human suffering, advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and in the world.’