You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

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.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

Remember me in your dreams, as I will you.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.

Chess is a time game, it’s a game of patience. That pretty much defines how I run the ball.

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.