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.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

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.

I want a shot for people like me to grow up and do something with themselves.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

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

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.