"We meet at a time where we find ourselves at a crossroads in American history. It's a time where you can go into any town hall or veterans' hall or coffee shop or street corner and you'll hear people express the same anxiety about the future. You'll hear them convey the same uncertainty about the direction that we're headed as a country. Whether it's the war or Katrina or health care or outsourcing, you'll hear people say that, now, surely we've come to a moment where things have to change. And there are Americans who still believe in an America where anything's possible; they're just not sure that their leaders still do. They still believe in dreaming big dreams but they suspect maybe that their leaders have forgotten how."
- Barack Obama
"Politics is a non-rational business for most Americans - it's about fears, hopes, aspirations."
- Unknown guy on C-Span last night.
"All these years of success and failure, trial and error, have made me conclude that if we really want to build a modern movement, then progressives of all stripes and flavors, and from all regions of the country, must learnt to work together, to tolerate and respect our differences, to debate but not to fight, to understand that we are all playing different positions on the same team."
- Jerome Armstrong + Markos Moulitsas Z佖iga from Crashing the Gate.
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