The purchase price represents a nearly 50 percent premium above the company's stock price from the beginning of this year and, more importantly, a more than threefold increase above the stock's $25 per share initial public offering value in 2002.

The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.

New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.

I could never distrust him.

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

The critical goals of solid internal controls and transparent financial reporting are better achieved by a free and unfettered capital market rather than by burdensome regulation. Enforcement efforts should focus on aggressive prosecution of bad actors under existing anti-fraud laws rather than imposing costly and largely ineffective procedural requirements on all public companies.