"When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?"

"The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves."

"Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities."

"After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why."

"The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind."

"If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace."

"I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about."

"I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about."

"We in the media are just people with all of people's faults."

"Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now."

"Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over."

"A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed."

"You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is."

"Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself."

"I am scared of running out of money."

"If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it."

"This is my life. I love it."

"Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple."

"Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel."

"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

"My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'"

"My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'"

"It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere."

"For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design."

"I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race."

"I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do."

"I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill."

"If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong."

"I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?"

"I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God."

"It means zero to be against greed."

"Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing."

"The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly."

"We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough."

"Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will."

"If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer."

"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done."

"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

"You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot."

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."

"Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN."

"I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy."

"It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it."

"I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against."

"My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well."

"Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement."

"When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was."

"If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators."

"Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home."

"The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961."