Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, read more

Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.

Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution.

Everybody in this room cares about kids and nobody wants to trash the Constitution.

I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And read more

I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And I'm trying to assemble them into a complete package.

We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.

We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where read more

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British read more

Too often in the past, Tony Blair has gone to Washington and instead of pressing the British case or British arguments, he has effectively done what the president asked him to do and forgotten that he should be arguing Britain's corner.

The volume has been extraordinary. We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in the read more

The volume has been extraordinary. We've seen a great deal of money coming into the market place early in the year, and they need to find a home in a hurry. We're also seeing increased interest in our market on the part of foreign investors. The U.S. is a great market with wonderful liquidity and a terrific upside bias.

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a read more

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.