I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.