We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.

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

Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it's time to move from paying debt to building savings.

If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

We don't win what we don't fight for.