Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

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

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.