America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.