As our flagship, the ms Rotterdam has a special meaning for all of us at Holland America Line. We are honored that the members of the World Ocean and Cruise Liner Society feel the same way. This is a testament to the ship operation and service level and its crew.

I'd like to stay and play and get some kind of finality to it. But that's athletics. It teaches us adversity and we have to deal with it now.

[The panel also turned to the question of decentralization, which has been on the minds of corporate America at least since September 11, 2001, gaining new currency in the wake of this year's hurricanes.] Usually you hear of call centers and back offices and so forth being dispersed, but some core assets can be if you think it through, ... But the main thing in any corporate real estate is to figure out how to add measurable value. It simplifies things a bit, but at GE, if you can't measure it, don't do it.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

It's nice to see the celebrities we grew up with aging and now speaking to us with products that affect us at these stages in our lives.