KENNETH LANGONE

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

America is a powerful country. America is a great country. We have enormous resiliency. Any time we have had our back to the wall, we have come out a winner.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.

Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

The wealth that was created by my investments wasn't put into a giant swimming pool as so many elected demagogues seem to imagine. Instead it benefitted our employees, their families and our community at large.

Dick Grasso would be a superb mayor of the City of New York. He loves the city.

Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

America has thrived on capitalism, and America will thrive again on capitalism.

The thing that Tea Parties have to understand, you can't govern if you don't get elected.

The economy is a collection of emotions.