I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.

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

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