Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

To me, it is a process, a process that starts with raising awareness, engaging international partners on this issue, and being committed to a different course of action.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.

We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.

Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy.

The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.