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.

True patriotism isn't cheap. It's about taking on a fair share of the burden of keeping America going.

It's very hard to establish an economy of trustworthiness. The key is continuing to innovate and to keep your customers through innovation, because the customers can leave. But once you are a dominant player that continues to innovate and provide a good deal, customers will stay with you.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.