Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.

Once you commit to something, you've got to commit the whole way. Try and make the best of it.

I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.

For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.