Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead–if you strike oil.

Yes. I think it's an obscene amount of money. I think that, you know, we had some protesters last night when we pulled up in San Francisco and they're right to protest. They're absolutely right. It is an obscene amount of money. The Sanders campaign when they talk about it is absolutely right. It's ridiculous that we should have this kind of money in politics. I agree completely.

You’re not going to have a government that represents all of us, so long as you have candidates like Secretary Clinton being dependent on big money interests.

We just need something tangible to make us believe that politicians care about us. The wards in Flint haven’t seen any of this federal aid, but we do all the tax paying and all the dying.

To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation: we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all, and to fight for equal rights for women in America.

We wish those in happy relationships a very happy Valentine’s Day… and encourage everyone else to clean out their closets, donate to Goodwill and start fresh!

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.