Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

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