I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

The focus here is taking out ones that wouldn't make it anyway .

In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.