This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like read more

This is not good. The meeting was bad. Relations were bad. It was very hostile, even bitter... I don't like to see grown men bickering.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, read more

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. read more

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. read more

We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.

A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.

A quicker-than-expected recovery in capital expenditure spending will probably be the biggest catalyst, if one occurs at all.

With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to read more

With the things that create blight, there's a common thread that runs through all of them. If we were to pull that string tight at one time through all of them, we'd make a lot of headway.

Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes read more

Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up with. He's such an accomplished songwriter. He wrote a song for ('American Idol' runner-up) Bo Bice, Enrique Iglesias - he's got that ear to be a musical chameleon and get into the zone of an artist. And he can't help but write a song you can hum along to. And that voice, you know it when you hear it.