Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.

Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

Rain makes corn, corn makes whiskey.