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Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

All wealth is the product of labor.

The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

American workers are first rate.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.