If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

What can you do in order to save your own banks?

Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used.

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

Never underestimate the power of the spiritual world.

For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be had in them; and hold fast to God, Who does not change.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.