Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.

If you don't read the Holy Bible, you don't stand a chance with the antichrist.

Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

If you help someone, you may create a customer for life.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.