If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

Some people out there don't have life.

Whenever I heard a musician do something that I could not explain, I went back to the theory in order to figure it out.

You are remembered for your goodness.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous.

Everything seems to be working." Except me. I'm broken.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

I'm so honored to have been a part of something so meaningful that helped to keep so many families and loved ones connected.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.