Pastoral Resources

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

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

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Politics is not about power.

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.

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

Politics is not about money.

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.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

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.

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 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 aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.