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

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.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.