When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.
I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.
I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.
How could I not be the underdog, starting at 35 and a half and going from a manager and a fourth-string color commentator to being a wrestler?
Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.
Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.
Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.
