I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

I don't understand why people in this country are so bent on doing the 'perfect,' when you have something that is good and makes sense from a cost-benefit point of view.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

I'm all for the Fairness Doctrine, whatever that is.

The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha".

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

The European Union has lost virtually all of its credibility amongst large swaths of the European population.

To live in the moment and in the future at the same time would seem to me to be the trick.

I go through the motions of living in society