Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

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.

You must become aware of the need to serve humanity with your gift

They had holes to fill on every page and jammed in any vaguely newsworthy string of words provided it didn't include expletives, which they were apparently saving for their own use around the office.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.

I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can't handle them.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.