Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.