Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.

My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the question

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.