The employment report caused investors to reassess economics,

This is much bigger than Russia, ... The real issue here is that the global economy now is more integrated and good news, along with bad news, travels fast.

That's the beginning of a month, and we felt that was a good time to terminate the agreement,

it's a chicken-and-egg thing. If you have people studying to be engineers or whatever, you have to have jobs for them or they can't stay here. And if we don't have workers with the right skills, it's hard to get the jobs. It's something you have to build toward.

It's a very smart investment, ... By and large, customers want the ease of access and the ability to do research during the off-hours.

The timing and magnitude of this ($900 million) charge was a surprise, ... The fact that they are taking the charge now makes you wonder how far they would have (missed their mark) for the quarter. It really calls the quality of the earnings into question.

At the margin, we remain a holder of Microsoft shares, not an aggressive buyer.

We've not had a significant utilization of the chamber staff, ... But if I needed administrative help, I could call on the chamber staff for that.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.