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 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.

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.

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.

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

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.

Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

What would it be like to let go of wanting things to be other than they are?

God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to be the one doing to it.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.