"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others."
"I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale."
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