Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best education I can get.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

If one job doesn't pay all the bills, don't worry. You can get another one and another one and another one.

One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America - and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.