If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

I mean, we'll be pounding on the guy's chest, you know, on the floor, and you know, he's not going to just jump up all of a sudden. So it makes it tough. I mean, it's tough to be in the legislature, you know, and vote for something and then people say, well, you voted all this money and you know, it's all getting spent. It isn't getting spent. It's getting invested. But it's all getting spent. Nothing's happening.

I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.