Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.

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.

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Faith is a channel through which the anointing flows.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.