The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys' club discussing how the old boys' club should be reformed.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest rates are 150 percent?

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.