When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

I try to avoid political ties.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.

Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.

I'm pretty darn happy with my day job.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle.

The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.