I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There is a lot of inspiration around us that we can see every day and turn into projects.

I think there are a lot of good ideas there. I think, again, progress has been impeded by the polarization of the issue. And we need to look at some short-term actions that we could take to improve the system, to start helping people have health care be more affordable and accessible, while working on a longer term solution _ which takes time, it takes consensus, it takes not worrying about who gets the credit.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

(Greene) wants the best ideas that are going to give opportunity to black businesses and economic incentives — both in training and in things that they can do so incubator businesses can grow.