Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck.

I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it!

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.