“Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that’s how I see it.”

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.

There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.

This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.

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.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

Fear of decision making takes your life’s charge from you and it’s been given to your surroundings unconsciously. As long as you are afraid, people in your life will keep making decisions in your place.

At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.

The ability to consciously decide and alter which direction is best for you in every moment is an amazing privilege. 

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Never make a decision when you are not in control or angry.