The big thing simply is that demand from China for key base metals is rising by more than 20% a year and there is just not enough new product coming on – so it's economics 101.

This is a historic moment. This is not a false dawn, it's a real recovery. There will be setbacks, but...the reasons why [Japan] got into trouble and stayed in trouble have been worked through.

The story for Canada just gets better. Canadian energy and mining stocks will continue to be driven by strong global demand for commodities.

If we're setting the same goal every year, that should be a clue. I tell every person to write down the goal. Write down what you think you'd like your goal to be.

Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."

Another speaker could not duplicate what I do, but I could do what they do.