When you get more middle fingers than thumbs up, it's a progress.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

The similarities between me and my father are different.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

Two days in this city is worth two months in New York.

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"