"This is not class warfare. It’s math...." - Quote by Barack Obama

“I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of the narratives we have about economy and foreign policy got stuck. Because we have these categories of liberal, conservative, free marketer, open government - all these stereotypes about our politics and the categories we try to put things in are inadequate to this sort of complex, ambiguous, sometimes contradictory experience we have as ordinary people and that I have as an elected official.”

“There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.”

“That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate”

“Thrift is of great revenue.”

“New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.”

“What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.”

“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

“Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations.”

“When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will”