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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.