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Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.
Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
When I was a small boy, I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than everyone else.
I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.
Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.
Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education.
As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.
Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship.
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
Only if everyone buys insurance can insurers afford to cover people with preexisting conditions or pay the costs of catastrophic diseases.
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed.
A lot of attention has been going to social values - abortion, gay rights, other divisive issues - but economic values are equally important.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth.
I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term.
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger.
In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.
Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.
Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.
We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.
We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.
The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)
Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.
Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.
I'm not one of those who thinks the only way to fix what's wrong with American education is to throw more money at it. We also need to do it much better.
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.
The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.