I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

You have to love the office and you have to love our country and what is going on right now.

You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.