People should always know better.

The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

I think the Congress will do the right thing. I think that they've - you know, they got into certain arguments and they start worrying about assessing blame, and there is a little demagoguery, but in the end, something this important, they'll do the right thing. So this really is an economic Pearl Harbor. That sounds melodramatic, but I've never used that phrase before. And this really is one.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.