I never want anyone to be sitting where I'm sitting and to have lost their son, because I can never get Luke back.
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.
The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
The U. S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U. S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
Inflation is certainly low and stable and, measured in unemployment and labour-market slack, the economy has made a lot of progress. The pace of growth is disappointingly slow, mostly because productivity growth has been very slow, which is not really something amenable to monetary policy. It comes from changes in technology, changes in worker skills and a variety of other things, but not monetary policy, in particular.
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.
Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
Yes, alas, I've been on some recording sessions where the music wasn't good. Not so many, really, considering how many I've done. It's a very awkward situation because to do a recording well you focus on the positive of what will make the piece better.