We're told we need this trade deal to open up vast markets to American goods, ... But the reality is that most Chinese workers cannot afford to buy the goods that even they make.

This China trade deal is basically like the Bobby Knight of trade deals. You know, you abuse, you abuse, you abuse, and then they say 'Well, OK, we'll let you try one more time.'

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

What's the difference between obsolete and cutting edge? Obsolete works.

An accent in a way can be an entry into a character.