I think that social tensions have lessened because of the strong economy, and now is a time where people are concerned about promoting equality, racial equality, economic equality, now is the time for them to build in this shift in the public's mood.

I strongly believe in fighting inequality.

If a multiracial citizen's coalition were in place, it would have the muscle to pressure national public officials to consider seriously the interests of ordin…

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very…

I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its bes…

Today, under George W. Bush, there are two Americas, not one: One America that does the work, another that reaps the reward. One America that pays the taxes, a…

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.