“The most important thing will be building a bench of powerhouse progressives in elected office and in the next administration. [Bernie] Sanders has an enormous spotlight that he can shine on champions that are following the Sanders path of really building from the left.”

What he [Bernie Sanders] does next will really determine whether he is blazing a trail that others can follow into office, or whether he is an exception to the rule.

Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she’s rallied tons of people to battles that they don’t normally get involved in.

Well, here’s an opportunity to continue working to organize these million people even if he is not the one in office.

We’ve just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party.

An organization is great if you have a clear vision to be able to make it powerful. If you don’t, an organization can kind of sap energy that could go elsewhere.

I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street – among other Sanders priorities.

When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the window and they see a million people marching, it changes their calculus.

Bernie or bust actually reduces the leverage for Bernie [Sandеrs] to claim victory.

And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there’s a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.

I would have her shield me with shining breast.

Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.