Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

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.

He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everybody he loved.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

Watch out! It's quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven't yet been made.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

There's no need for drama and hate, y'all. Let's love each other! We're all human, right?