I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

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.

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

Life has a habit of making the easy desperately difficult, and the hardest choices so easy as to be no choice at all.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Some ideas take you to the stars; some sinks you to the mud!

Truth happens to an idea