I read the manual on snake bites this morning,

It's ironic. The President talks about global competitiveness, then they cut funding.

We have seen people who have done only one brushing of their teeth with water out of the tap and within six to eight hours they are violently ill,

The animals down here are totally traumatized, ... Even their own dogs and cats are turning on people.

None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.

We're more trading off of earnings. Investors will be able to tolerate continued moderate inflation as long as earnings continue to accelerate.