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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

The people that were invested in me staying the same way after a decade will most likely by default have to be disappointed.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.