There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

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.

Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Can I ask you something personal?” Six inches but I tell everyone eight.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.