Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we read more

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on read more

Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on the mergers and acquisition, buy-back or dividend fronts, mixed with good news out of energy or the Fed, would be a catalyst to bring the big institutions back into stock market.

I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter read more

I'm just earning my minutes, I knew I had the capabilities to play here, and it was just a matter of going out and doing it. Finally I'm doing it and I'm even more hungry to do even more, there are more things I can do.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about.

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.

If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to read more

If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to the considerations',

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were read more

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.