We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

I think we've got to look at corporate law. Back in the day when I studied it, there were different constituencies that were to be served, and I think there was a real wrong turn about 20 to 25 years ago when the theory began to be promoted that your highest duty - in fact, some would argue, your only duty - is to maximize shareholder return. I just don't buy it. And it wasn't the original underpinnings of the legal theory of corporate law.

I don't spend my hours plotting for somebody else's downfall.

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.