The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

Capital markets reward you for what you learn that other people have yet to ascertain.

Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Risk is what you make of it.

Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But Im not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. Im interested in the person who can make the right decisions.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes.

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Animal research saves lives, but wherever possible alternatives should be used

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Figure out for yourself what you want to be really good at, know that you'll never really satisfy yourself that you've made it, and accept that that's okay.

Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.