I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

I personally don't like guys who are super-muscly and stacked and overdo it in that way. Having a natural, healthy body is the best. It doesn't mean you have to be a certain size, because everybody's different.

I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career here in Chicago. I've always been an optimist; I believe you have to be in order to survive, to be honest with you - in health, with what I've been through. That's the way I am.

The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.