Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy and ambition, he talked too much.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family

The most tragic thing about the future is that it may not come into being!

Life is all about endurance.

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.