Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.
I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.