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Barring some national security concern, I see no valid reason to keep peer-reviewed research from the public. To be clear, by 'peer review,' I mean scientific review and not a political filter. ”

I think there's a big difference between the impact of trade agreements on corporate America and the impact on Mr. and Mrs. America. Corporate America has adjusted to them by investing lots of capital offshore... What we're doing is we're exporting jobs and importing products instead of exporting products and keeping jobs. ”

Washington, D.C., is the new Wall Street. No significant financial transaction of any consequence occurs without it. ”

Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel. ”

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA. ”

The fact that you're successful doesn't mean that you can't relate to working people. ”

There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate. ”

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism. ”

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice. ”

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a kind of loser mentality. And when you ask them what's wrong with the business, they'll point to extraneous forces. ”