If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

It's a blank check,

When you have kids as cute as mine - offsetting my features - you need to highlight them.

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.

If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.