The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

You can make a difference, wherever you are. It begins with a decision and defined purpose.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.