"The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice."

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Source : "A conversation with the founder of the powerful online progressive political organization". Interview with Don Hazen, www.montereycountyweekly.com. April 28, 2005.

Wes Boyd

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“...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger. This...person -- she had a favorite food. She had friends and people she disliked. We don't even know how she died...I guess that's why I like preservation better than history. In preservation I feel like I can keep some of it from slipping away.”
“It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.”
“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
“The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.”
“I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.”
“Iâ€™m not a romantic, Iâ€™m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think Iâ€™m smart. Iâ€™m not something anyone should know. Iâ€™m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, Iâ€™m like every single miserable moron Iâ€™ve scorned and pretended I didnâ€™t recognize. Iâ€™m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. Iâ€™m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. Iâ€™m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I canâ€™t see what I used to be.”
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.”
“The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.”

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