So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.

The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works.

If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds.

Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.

For me, a muse is someone who looks glamorous but is quite passive, whereas I was very hard-working. I worked from 9am to sometimes 9pm, or even 2am. I certainly wasn't passive

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.