The core corporation is ... increasingly a façade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world.

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.

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

People express their feelings through crying or anger. We, Big Bang, express it through music.

I think you always have to try to expand the content to make it exciting for the audience and the kids out there with the cars and the robots.

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.