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.

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.

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.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something, a gift of life to make a difference in the world.

I knew how you liked long tales, " he said, giving her a wink. "There's sure to be plenty of those.""In Gaelic, " she said."All the better for learning it.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue.

Some things take root in the brain and just don’t let go.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.