You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.