Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Elections have consequences.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

He is about as well-put-together and focused as a zombie at a tractor pull.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

One of the great gifts that you can give people is to cook for them.

I never really liked meat. I was a child that had to be forced to eat my meat. Whatever you ate before that you loved like turkey slices they've got a substitute now that's not hard to find.

While researching the project [The Fourth Phase] I stumbled across this amazing research by a scientist called Dr Gerard Pollack who had done studies on what he called a 'fourth phase' of water.