There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

We are now enjoying the liberation that comes with not having to be organization men and women, and that's fabulous. But there are new social consequences here of which we need to be aware, and the sale of the self and what that entails for the rest of our lives is quite sobering.

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

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

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.