It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.