I pray daily... for peace.

The company had a duty to inform its shareholders and its employees about things that were going on inside the company. That's not a federal government responsibility.

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.

But he just sat back in his chair, ... His attitude was, 'I said this during the campaign, and whatever I said in the campaign must be right.'

I think ... our economy will rebound into reasonable rates of growth as we move into next year, ... So I am optimistic.

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.

If you look at the market as a forecaster of the future, the markets are now above where they were when we re-opened the markets on September the 17th,

The U.S. economy has the potential to grow at 3 or 3.5 percent real growth for the indefinite future,

a sign of the growing strength of the anti-terror coalition.

We are very pleased with our earnings performance for the first half of the year, since we have been able to more than offset a 16 percent drop in aluminum prices on the (London Metals Exchange) since the beginning of 1998, ... We look forward to the addition of Alumax in the next quarter and have been hard at work with Alumax employees to make the acquisition very beneficial to Alcoa customers and shareholders.