I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

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