Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I love being at home being with friends and family. I'm of European stock brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

I come from pioneer stock developers of the West people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen.

General Howard informed me in a haughty spirit that he would give my people 30 days to go back home collect all their stock and move onto the reservation.

Cause and effect the riddle of all history is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

A man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived from the beginning of the world and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

To finance this trade deficit the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks businesses and real estate to the rest of the world.