When you add physical requirements to jobs that don't need them, you begin to weed out a whole pool of people such as the elderly, the obese, people with pre-existing medical conditions. I think this memo steps over the line of what's legal.

Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

In Washington, D.C., we are still living in the last century in an industrial revolution, ... India and China are in overdrive and America is in neutral.

I can't think of another entertainment sector that's systematically freezing out half the potential market.

For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ... There should be some form of compensation, just like anyone else killed or injured in the line of duty.

I'm not a national security expert, I don't have access to that information, [but] I have to presume the threat real enough that it's worth the risk.