I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.

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.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

Laughter is like a windshield wiper, it doesn't stop the rain but allows us to keep going.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.