Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me.

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them.

Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some degree in my world, in venture capital. People hesitate if they see something that's purported to be green. That's not a reason to invest for many people.