the clear choice Americans face in November between progress and growth and the politics of pessimism.

When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want.

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

Most Americans feel it doesn't make any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give birth and have a new U.S. citizen. But the advocates for illegal immigrants will make a fuss; they'll claim you're punishing the children, and I suspect the leadership doesn't want to deal with that.

Every year the market has cycles like this. Every year, the market has wild optimism and wild pessimism.

Usually, the drug of choice for African-Americans is cocaine, ... I’ve battled with it even though I had a great business and I thought I could use cocaine frequently and it wouldn’t cause me trouble, I was very wrong.