If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

That's the American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did, what the hell good is this country?

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

Are we going to be a services power? The double-cheeseburger-hold-the-mayo kings of the world?

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.