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

Rules cannot take the place of character.

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.

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

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

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.