I have not seen a better fundamental atmosphere for gold since the early 1980s. This metal is increasingly being viewed as an asset class and an alternative asset. It is also a flight-to-safety vehicle and an inflation hedge.

The shipping community wants to have some comfort that the transfer will be a seamless one and that Panamanian authorities have seized their responsibility to run the canal in a professional way.

The reality is that unrecorded inventories are huge. This is an old argument -- a bogus argument -- that has been presented for many years, but there is no long-term silver shortage.

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.