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The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016. ”
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ”
One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there. ”
The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class. ”
Sometimes, in Silicon Valley, there is this attitude that we know best and we can change the world. The boldness allows us to invent the future. But, we need more empathy for those who are left behind and a recognition that Silicon Valley can't just call the shots and expect change. ”
I get good references from a wide range of music. Something who's been a good influence in the last few years is Qawwali music. If you listen to a Qawwali singer like Aziz Mian - he's like James Brown. Qawwali is like Pakistani gospel-jazz. It's emotional, but it's also improvised, and it's all about that sacred-and-profane tightrope. ”
Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego. ”
Every day, I was on the street dribbling, doing skills. I wasn't in an academy till I was 19. ”
Every good villain has his or her own vulnerability. ”
I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy. ”