He has a real conviction as to how the telecom market and technology are going to evolve, and a real conviction on what his company needs to do to remain competitive.

Real GDP growth has been relatively healthy, but most Americans don't feel it. It's a transformative time for the U.S. economy.

Ed is a visionary. He has a very long-term point of view and he knows exactly what he believes in. You don't meet many people who are as sure in what they believe in, long-term, as Ed does.

We feel there are about eight projects which we feel wouldn't have advanced without New Jobs for New York.

The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.

Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.