I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.

At the end of drama school I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda it is all the more important that the public understand that difference and choose their news sources accordingly.

The superior man understands what is right the inferior man understands what will sell.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

You know maybe I was just born in the wrong time but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Life is an unfoldment and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot wants the best for this country. And people your fair and balanced friends at Fox don't fully understand that.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.