For the people who experience it, it's a tragedy, but for the country as a whole, we can absorb it.

Even people who don't like Microsoft we talked to late yesterday were shocked. They felt this could give Microsoft an opening in the appeals process to claim, 'We didn't get due process, this judge was too impetuous, he moved too quickly.' Considering how great a job Jackson has done, for him to give Microsoft an opening at this late date was a little surprising.

It goes back to Aristotle's idea that tragedy has a cathartic effect on the audience, ... The experience purges you and leaves you a healthier person.

If the dollar were to threaten below 120 yen again, they'll intervene again. I think they've got to improve their export sector. They've got to export their way out of this.

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise, ... If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.