To be manager of the Yankees under the malevolent dictatorship of George Steinbrenner is like being married to Zsa Zsa Gabor - the union is short and sweet.

Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.

Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.

All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.

I agree with what the Chairman Greenspan said whatever it is that he did say.

We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.

We do not view 2005 to be a clean operating year, and the positives of beating expectations are offset by guidance moving around.

In terms of myself, I said from the very beginning that I wanted to work in the management of Citigroup and I didn't want to be a CEO, ... That's not what I want to do with myself at the moment.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.

dare greatly, think great.

If the good news is an invitation to a Jesus way of life and not information about somebody who accomplished something on my behalf, I’m sunk. This is law and no gospel.

Just because we have birds inside us, we don't have to be cages.

Over the years I have been kind of lazy, thinking my talent alone can do it.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard, and I mean really hard, but I do think this.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

What makes me cry? Anything bad related to my kids. The world.