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

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.

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

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

You've got to say yes to this miracle of life as it is, not on condition that it follow your rules.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.