Paul O'Neill

I am pleased with our performance in 1997, ... The 1997 year was one of continued worldwide growth for Alcoa. Increased demand for our products, coupled with relentless improvements in operating efficiencies more than offset lower fabricated aluminum prices.

Evidence of an economic slowdown makes this tax relief all the more compelling, ... Cutting income tax rates can help keep this downturn from taking root.

with a view to ensuring that investors in all mortgage-backed securities are provided with the information that they should have.

We support the intentions of the Senate bill, but we have reservations as well,

We don't look at this as satisfying a particular lobby or interest group, or even a political party. This is about trying to do the right thing for the people of the United States.

I used some vivid language that if I could take it back, I'd take that back, because it's become the controversial centerpiece, ... a bipartisan, broken political process.

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

In our history we have seen times when there is a disconnect between the stock market and the fundamental productive power of our economy, ... The reality is that our economy remains solid, and our recovery is well under way.

I don't honestly think there's anything that's classified in those 19,000 documents, ... Today.

With the flow of funds that was going into the economy a week ago today, I would have said then -- and I will say now -- I think we're on the move back,

As long as we put forward ideas that most of the American people believe in, we should be able to get their representatives to understand that they need to reflect what the people believe, not some independent relationship to a party,

I didn't think this was worthy of me running across the street and telling the president. I don't go across the street and tell the president every time somebody calls me.

Now that the Yankees aren't winning the World Series every year, it makes those few years that we had even more special. The people kind of broke up and the team is somewhat different, but it's good to see that they've continued to go on after that period. People knew how to win.

Harvey said that people are going to certify, and if they falsely certify, it's going to be fraud, and they're going to go to jail, and we think that's the right step,

I don't see anything that's going to derail the general path of the economy, ... Wake Up Call.

This is not a case of one bad actor stealing from the petty cash drawer and giving those stolen monies to terrorists. This organization exists to raise money in the United States to promote terror,

It has been a privilege to serve the nation during these challenging times. I thank you for that opportunity.

We believe the time to act is now, ... Our economy has slowed down in the last six months beginning in August, and we are now bouncing around by some estimates in a narrow range of economic activity amounting to between 5 percent growth and minus 5 percent growth.

Today we block the finances of an assortment of terrorists involved in financing and carrying out bombings, kidnappings and murder, ... We will continue to expose and shut down these thugs wherever we find them.

As we look at the economic statistics, we feel it is important to get money flowing back to the American people as fast as we can,

Higher income people are going to invest their money in the economy, ... They aren't going to buy another car.

These people are nasty and they have a long memory,

There's something about that day that will make people try to undo mistakes they never thought they could undo.

With the profound changes we've now made, and the president urging we make them permanent, we're going to have a very difficult time finding the money to do a fundamental fix of Social Security, ... And I thought that was a more compelling need.