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.

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.

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.

There are things I cannot say.

Think of your adversary as a bearer of equilibrium; if we have need of friends to stimulate us, we equally need someone to show us our errors.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

Germany's like Wisconsin, but with, like, a really bad past.

When friends meet, hearts warm.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.