America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Well-trained and dedicated employees are the only sustainable source of competitive strength.

In entertainment, the technology began giving us greater choice and easier switching before almost any other area. The studios became much more dependent on the stars, not just star actors and directors but also star technicians, star cinematographers. It's a very important evolution in terms of understanding why people are working the way they're working.

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.

Today, for good or ill, people are thinking about many social problems from the standpoint of their own kitchen tables. I think the way to begin a conversation with people about what's going on is to address their daily experiences, and what their fears and frustrations, as well as their exhilarations, are.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.