We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

As an Italian-American, I have a special responsibility to be sensitive to ethnic stereotypes.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

At some point, universities have to do more to prepare players for university life and help them succeed beyond football. There's so much money being made in this sport. It's a crime to not do everything you can to help the people who are making it for those who are spending it.

One of the downsides of money is if there's no money, there are very few real jerks who are attached to your project. And if there is money, you do attract some very difficult, unhelpful people.

I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.