Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

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.

All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

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

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