“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.”

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

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.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Give me unexpected whether it is good or bad, I learn from it all. As you build or break me in the end, I will stand tall.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were.

Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.