As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

I see black light (his last words)

I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

A gun in the hand is worth any number being tested.

There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.