“When you say “paying the banks,” what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.”

There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they’ve run up – to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.

I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can’t pay the health care if they get sick.

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

When we say “people worry” about inflation, it’s mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.

I’m always being inspired .

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

If you have the right to call me a hot dog why do I not have the right to call you a stale 3-day old hamburger?

I think we’re in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

I want to get out there. I want to show myself.

I like the big bombastic singers, but I’m also very drawn to what I call character singers.

I’ve tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I’ve represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.