Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

I assure you the Teamsters Union will be a strong force in electing the next president of the United States.

Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

The sensitivity [to the United States] is going to be highest for equity markets and lowest for currencies, but even then you're going to get some sort of divergence happening.

Obviously, the United States we don't need another hurricane, ... It certainly could have an impact on the production and the refineries that are up and running today and it certainly would have an impact on the recovery.

We are going to keep doing it until the equity of it appeals to a president of the United States.