[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.

When the Fed decides that inflation is too high, they have the tools, and they've shown historically that they have the will, to bring it down. And, it might be painful.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.