Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

We’d avoid a lot of insecurity, if we fully, wholly believed in God’s wild affection for us.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

You might be a redneck if you entire family has ever sat around waiting for a call from the governor to spare a loved one.

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.