I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

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.

Don't think that I'm - I'd- I'm infallible. Will always make mistakes.

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

I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.