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

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 can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

If redwoods are the backbone of California, oaks are of England.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.