Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

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.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)My manners are mellow, I'm sweet like the Jell-o, I get the job done, yes indeed-o. (clap-clap)

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

We declare that one who uses the God-given body of another without divine sanction abuses the very soul of that individual, abuses the central purpose and processes of life.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.