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" I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand the term. "

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" The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts. "

" We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work. "

" As long as the big banks are allowed to remain big, their political leverage over Washington will remain big. And as long as their political leverage remains big, the taxpayer and economic tab for the next mess they create will be big. "

" It is hard to bite the hands that feed you, especially when you are competing for food. "

" One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower. "

" Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal. "

" Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets. "

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

" Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible? "

" Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. "

" We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? "

" Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster. "

" Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem. "

" On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. "

" We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide. "

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

" As income from work has become more concentrated in America, the super rich have invested in businesses, real estate, art, and other assets. The income from these assets is now concentrating even faster than income from work. "

" Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some people get new jobs that pay better, many lose their jobs or their wages. "

" Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become. "

" Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. "

" Those who take their money abroad in an effort to avoid paying American taxes should lose their American citizenship. "

" Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans. "

" As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment. "

" Universities have to tame their budgets, especially for student amenities that have nothing to do with education. "

" Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. "

" The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. "

" In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life. "

" Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. "

" 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. "

" No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident. "