I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I think that they have.

for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.

Look, my best friend is Xena, Warrior Princess and she is not going to like this forced wedding thing, if you get my drift.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

My best piece of advice is to do something you're passionate about. If you do - you'll do it well - and the money follows.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.