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"The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference."
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"Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President."

"Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man."

"A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth."
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"There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms."


"Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world."


"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together."


"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."


"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."


"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."


"Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy."


"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."


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