Sometimes in order to make progress and move ahead, you have to stand up and do the wrong thing.

There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

Patriots don't let their nation default.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.