A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

I'm a registered Democrat.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

You are your own leader. Where are you driving yourself to now? You can't afford to go wayward! Rise up and break new territories and live life so well.

Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream?

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.