If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

The American dream is you come here, you believe in democracy, you believe in the Constitution, you work hard, you can make it.