People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean Baker, Robert Poland, Larry Summers have said they all support a transaction tax.
I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
I worked with President Obama on the Affordable Care Act and getting health coverage to all Americans. It was my legislation that said insurance companies can no longer deny coverage for kids with preexisting conditions.
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.
I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.
She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.
As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'
Footballers, managers, pundits and fans make up possibly the biggest tribe of them all, especially in this country. Whatever is said by pundits is echoed across sofas and in pubs all over the nation.
I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.
