We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

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

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.