Thomas johnson

As long as people have money they are always going to try to do inappropriate things with it. The real question is how banks and government authorities deal with that and whether their safeguards really work.

It's a compliment to the U.S. banking system that, whatever the purpose, people would rather have their money in U.S. banks than anywhere else. If you had a horrible banking system, then these issues wouldn't happen.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man

We took a gamble on Johnson and he dogged it. We risked a lot of money to do it, and he didn't come through. But now Sam Peter is in that situation, too. We've got a lot of other good, young fighters. But Sam Peter is our franchise fighter, a guy who can really turn our company around, and this is the single most important fight we've had since Johnson-Ruiz.

That's the beauty of it. It's still their grease.