Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.