The problem of dealing with the financial industry is being addressed today. You can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.