They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.

If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters.

...it only takes one voice, at the right pitch, to start an avalanche.

I always had an actor within me.

I try to avoid calling myself a poet because I think that's something someone else has to call you. It's like bragging.

Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!