My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

The president-elect Donald Trump moved a bit closer to getting his Cabinet in place with another round of confirmation hearings. The most contentious was for his treasury secretary pick, Steven Mnuchin, a billionaire banker who worked at Goldman Sachs and owned a hedge fund. There was important news that came out during the hearing. Mnuchin said that he would support raising the debt ceiling sooner rather than later, and not risk the country defaulting.

Some days you feel like you've had the greatest ego massage, then the next day you've been trampled on.

You have to be careful, because, in the [Donald] Trump stimulus package, there were two elements. One is the infrastructure investment program, which at this moment doesn't have the financing spelled out in any effective form.