We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

We're going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

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.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science and in the future, so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big, and the kid after that, and the kid after that. That's what president Obama believes.

The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.

I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.