In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.

People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it.

It may get worse before it gets better. But it WILL get better.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Make someone happy, Make just one someone happy, And you will be happy, too.

Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.