“Most of the time when these things go public… private-equity firms want to get the hell out of there. They want to monetize their investment and get their guys off the board, because they don't want to be caught in a conflict of interest.”

“You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns -
And the public wants what the public gets - but I don't get what this society wants.”

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”

“I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.”

“If people want go-along, get-along politics, I am not their guy.”

“The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.”

“Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

“The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.”