“President Roosevelt was right. True freedom cannot exist without economic security.”

The Republicans must get their act together and protect working families.

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Young people have the power to change this country and the world.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

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.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

This level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable.

Republicans didn’t care about the deficit when it came to tax breaks for billionaires. We cannot buy into their rhetoric about the deficit now.

Fashion? Let’s get to work.

The American people need a raise, and they need it now.

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

If we can afford war, we can afford to support children going hungry.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Don’t let anybody fool you. The progressive movement today is winning.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence.

Corporate governance is concerned with holding the balance between economic and social goals and between individual and communal goals.

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won’t stand idle hoping that our economy improves.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

This isn’t a stable system.

We’re not where we should be in terms of our national economies.