I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is natural.

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

Republican candidate Ben Carson told reporters he thinks American prisons might be too comfortable. As opposed to Mexican prisons that have personal showers with $5 million escape tunnels.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.