Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

As president, Clinton will continue to oppose TPP until it dies.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

When I was a freshman, I didn't have that much time for extra-curriculars, so I didn't do any theater stuff. Actually, I didn't do it with my school. I did theater with this thing called Teen Source.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

We wrongly but persistently expect to make different decisions tomorrow than we do today

I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.