"I'm a radical democrat. I believe in the power of ordinary people to transform society."

"We need to recover the best of the American democratic tradition, which is a tradition of dissent, of protest, of resistance."

"To be a radical is to go to the root of the problem."

"We've got to get beyond the ways in which the political system has been colonized by corporate wealth and by monied elite."

"I'm a melancholic warrior for justice."