“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.”

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.

Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn’t know how to throw a punch.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.

I love the work I do.

We’re going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.

It’s so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

I was told I could break free if I wanted to. That my wings would mend with time. But how can I mend a part of me that was never built to weather a storm?

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Your trauma doesn’t build character, it builds a wall around you.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.