When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.

Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.

President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.


Robert B. Reich

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'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading publ...
ROBERT B. PARKER
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these ...
ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone...
ROBERT B. PARKER
I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, so...
ROBERT B. ROCKWELL
Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon."
I shrugged. "The ways of...
ROBERT B. PARKER
How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'...
ROBERT B. PARKER
I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there w...
ROBERT B. PARKER
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"
"No. They only say that I'm goo...
ROBERT B. PARKER
After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer a...
ROBERT B. PARKER
...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me....
ROBERT B. PARKER
If that's true, we still have time to monitor the key genetic changes that would enable (the H5N1 vi...
DR. ROBERT B. BELSHE
That's not something we thought was possible.
DR. ROBERT B. BELSHE
The number of humans infected by other people is, if not zero, very close to zero.
DR. ROBERT B. BELSHE
[The entire Old Testament] ground-plan is the whole scheme of Messianic prophecy, from the germinal ...
MAX I. REICH
I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
B. B. KING
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided ...
B. B. KING
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on ...
B. B. KING
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown o...
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high sc...
B. B. KING
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A...
B. B. KING
I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are Go...
B. B. KING
The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit asha...
B. B. KING
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
B. B. KING
Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&...
B. B. KING
I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b...
B. B. KING
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you...
B. B. KING
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
B. B. KING
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa...
B. B. KING
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's...
B. B. KING
I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
B. B. KING
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
B. B. KING
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
B. B. KING
If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me...
B. B. KING
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
B. B. KING
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di...
B. B. KING
We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING
I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING
If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING
Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING
I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING
I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING
If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING