After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Be crazy about your goal and do not stop till time you do not hit the bulls eye.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.