I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
But rules cannot substitute for character.
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so. . .
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.
It is. But not as hard as farce.