Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Many of them are doing it because they are concerned about smart growth.

And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

I don't think we'll win every election.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

Don't say it's because of benefits, because our benefits are good.

We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

There are going to be some people who never want Wal-Mart. That's OK.

And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want us in your community, that's your choice, but don't say it's because of wages.

In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.

I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

If you treat animals how you want to be treated, you're a lot better off.

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

I've never done an actual Western, and I would love to do that. I've done drama and dark comedy stuff. I've never really done a romantic comedy either. I would do that.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.

Many times, we spend so much time on policy, but we don't explain how the policy affects and makes the heart even grow bigger. And I think that's a place that we have to look inside.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

No one looks forward to a recount.

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.