There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

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.

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.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Rather than crying & craving for those who left our path during dark moments of our life, lets spend some time to thank them who stood and helped us to pass those dark paths.

What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.

True prayer is a lonely business.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.