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

If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.

It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.

I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.

It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever.

My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.

We don’t win what we don’t fight for.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

That’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

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.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

Self-care often means doing what you don’t feel like doing in the present moment to benefit the future.

Develop habits that will benefit and accelerate your growth.

Many families are struggling, at least there will be direct payments for every working class adult and their children, and an extension of unemployment benefits.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.