I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.
The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more.
But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.
Until the wolf shall lay with lamb, we'd better be the wolves.
If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.
Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.
There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage. . . between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.