The reason we charge is it costs a lot of money. We don't look at Fan Faire as a revenue generator. We look at it as something we do for the community, but it is very expensive for us.

Instead of closing our eyes, turning our back on (real-money trading), and just hoping it will go away, we instead decided to embrace it and make it legal or sanctioned for those who wanted to take part in it. It's a big experiment for us. It seems to be working out.

We can build a 50-foot concrete wall around a refinery, it just costs a whole lot of money, ... That kind of storm is extremely rare. At some point, somebody said, 'This is a risk I can live with.'Ÿ

Revenue is way up and we've cut costs in other areas, so we're in a good position to do these things.

I want to drive down health care costs.

We used to be up against a lot of stupid money that invested in bad ideas. Now that most of the bad businesses have disappeared, the remaining companies are getting down to doing some real business.