When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

Most people have a sense that things have gone terribly wrong. It's not just some giveaways to the rich and the rigging of regulatory rules. It's something fundamental. The very idea of America is being stolen, and people are sensing that with a tremor within their hearts. They are taking away this core notion of the common good, this idea that we are all in it together. They are diverting America from our historic striving towards egalitarianism, which is why America exists. It's the thing that makes us unique in history. That's what people are sensing. We are going down the wrong path.

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.