If people want to protest, to get out there and express themselves, as long as they do it peacefully, they should be encouraged to do so.

Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.