A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year.

It's not right that Donald Trump can ignore his debts, but students and families can't refinance theirs.

We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses.