You have to take calculated risks in life.

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail the lower and middle classes.

As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

Know the laws before you break them

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Since when do you look out for me? You really have grown up.""Had to happen sometime, " I say.

A good way to do econometrics is to look for good natural experiments and use statistical methods that can tidy up the confounding factors that Nature has not controlled for us.

Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

We live in a world that someone can say anything about anyone and it can be seen as the truth.