Today, you're a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message out, and you can move things. And you [can] say that the economy is more unpredictable.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.