I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.

Don't mix wine and women.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

What I've found is that the religion that matters, the real religion is love.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.