Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.

I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.