History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.