In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

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.

There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

Battle rap is a culture. That's boxing, it's like boxing.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins.

How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.