“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”

“I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.”

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“We go off the meds and elect Richard Nixon, the Nurse Ratched of the American political psych ward.”

“Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics”

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”