You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.