24 Quotes by Paul O'Neill

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.

Yes, it's true we are going through dislocations because of a correction related to the boom that ended in the summer of 200, but the foundations of the American economy are very deep and very solid, ... And we are going to be great.

If we're going to have a tax reduction ... I don't know why we wouldn't want it now, ... It won't hurt. We'll get ready for the next round of expansion in our economy.

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,