"Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses."

"Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations."

"We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from."

"The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace."

"He who conquers his inner doubts has already won half the war. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did."