Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces read more

Pretty healthy retail sales growth in November reinforces belief that consumer spending is picking up to some extent, and reduces the case for a near-term interest rate cut.

Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though.

Tigard and Canby should be good as well. We will be right in the thick of it though.

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it read more

NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond what it is currently doing. NATO is continuing to do what it has been doing for many months, and that is airlifting in and out African Union battalions … as well as providing training.

We have decided to make sure that we're cautious about how we're operating, and I have nothing to say further read more

We have decided to make sure that we're cautious about how we're operating, and I have nothing to say further than that,

It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that read more

It's quite striking to see a system where there are no barriers to access. You really have the feeling that the public health authorities want the people in Cuba to be healthy.

I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock read more

I would contend that our children are as important to the future of the country as the economy. The stock market will never depend on it, but I hope the report will annually at least focus attention on the status and condition of our children.

It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, read more

It was a little early, we weren't quite ready yet and all of our funding wasn't there. But we felt, and still feel, that it was the right thing to do.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the read more

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is read more

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.