I'd like to believe that the country is ready, but I do have my doubts based on my own experience.

What people say and what people do are often very different things.

We are just so excited and so grateful. We've been able to experience so much that we didn't even know existed.... When we started out, we didn't have any money, but we had a dream. And we didn't ever give up.

Alex owned Rockford Country Club.

What Apple's producing with iPod is the total experience with hardware, software and services. That's the piece none of the other purveyors have figured out: how to make the thing a great experience from soup to nuts.

Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.