Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Elections have consequences.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I think I could have worked for the Clinton administration.

I don't rule out anything in my future.

I think it is important that we all try and be green where it is possible; an awareness of the world around us can never be a bad thing.

You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.

Once the illusion (branti) goes away, one can see ‘as it is’, and that is why ignorance goes away. When ignorance goes, maya (deceit) goes. Once God’s maya is gone, the solution is found.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Novak! Take the blazer off before you punch, it will help. Take it off. Hey, that's from Express.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.