A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

You have to take calculated risks in life.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God's mercy.

No one can give you freedom but you.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

The shadows are only the darkest when the light is at its brightest.

I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.