I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing.

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.

The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.

Creating jobs for your country's workers is about much more than ensuring that the balance sheets of your country's companies are strong, or stimulating domestic demand. It is about figuring out how your country's workers fit into the global economy.

In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.