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

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

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can`t see the actual deal.

Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they've had enough of it. They're ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they're seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that's what we need to work on.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

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.