Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

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.

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song

Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people

If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Power is founded upon opinion.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.