Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Patience Quotes