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.

Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

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.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.