All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'

Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.

I am on a mission to help make this world a better place.

A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.

In a democracy, a person's vote is their voice. For much of our history, however, not everyone's voice was welcome at the voting booth.

We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.

More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.