When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

We've created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.

Without investment, you cannot have jobs.

Popularity isn't an objective in itself. I'm not in this game.

I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.