One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out. There's too much of the structure that works in the two-party way. They will keep the third party out.

We cannot continue. Our pension costs and health care costs for our employees are going to bankrupt this city.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.

Look at the streets! The people have smiles on their faces, they're hustling and bustling and going places, they're well-dressed, there's lots of construction going on. It's kind of hard to feel sorry for an economy like this.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.