Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion more of us than we own of them. In my view, it will create political turmoil at some point. ... Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.