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I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

The most important decision I've made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, 'Come on everybody, we made it.' Then I had to realize we didn't make it. I made it.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones.

Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.

I have always focused on the bottom line.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.