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.

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

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.

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Haters never seem to realize that jealousy is an infinite torture to which you condemn yourself.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

I like to [unplug] and enjoy being a human.