If You Want To Be A Change

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.

To Be A Skilled Politician, You Have To Be Genuine. To Really Make It Work, You Have To Love People. You Have To Love The Contact, You Have To Love The Energy, You've Gotta Love Inspiring People And Getting Their Adulation In Return. You Can't Separate What's Genuine From What Is Necessary.

If You Give Up On Politics, You're Giving Up On Democracy. And If You Give Up On Democracy, You're Basically Saying To The Moneyed Interests, The Powerful People And Institutions Of Society, Take It All. That's A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Then We Give Up. Then We Are 100 Percent Plutocracy.

We Need To Expand Social Security To Prevent The Looming Retirement Crisis, And We Can Do It Simply By Asking Billionaires To Pay Their Fair Share.

I Am Not An Economic Determinist. If I Were, I Would Throw Up My Hands; I Just Would Not Bother. I Think It's Wrong To Be An Economic Determinist. I Think It's Wrong To Simply Say, "well, Inevitably, If You're Poor, You're Going To Get A Lousy Education; If You're Lower-middle Class, The Cards Are Going To Be Stacked Against You, And You'll Probably Never Get Anywhere".