I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.

To get to ‘yes’ from ‘no’, you may have to journey through ‘maybe’.

God desires to reveal the riches of His glory to the world through the abundance of people who have dedicated their lives to Him

I believe in the goodness of imagination.

The English language is simply not logical. It is strong, free, and beautiful.

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.