As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.
I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.
You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.
My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.
Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.
The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.
My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.
I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!
Rich people in one country don't act the same as rich people in another country.
The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
If we can get everybody working or as many as we can, you would be amazed at how many of our problems will disintegrate, go away.
I have, never, ever once, ever gotten anything from any politician I've ever helped. Not one thing.
I don't need a job. I don't want an appointment. I don't want to be on a commission. I don't want to be ambassador to nowhere.
You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.
Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.
I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.
We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'
