As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Don't get me wrong: I'm overjoyed with my career to date. But perhaps I could have done more. Mostly, I just did whatever the directors told me to do.

My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.

The easiest thing that is done, unfortunately, in Washington is to spend money today and send the bill to our children and grandchildren.

I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.

Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pressures to bear on the Fed. In terms of openness about our financial accounts, we are extensively audited.

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.