My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.