i want to strangle confucius, because i hate how he starts every sentence with, "confucius say."confucius, we know it is you talking. you didn't have to confucius say every one of your sentences. finally we have oprah, who gives out quotes like they're cars. "if you look at what you have in life you will always have more. if you look at what you don't have in life, you will never have enough." let's see her first draft. "if you look at what you have in life you will always have more. if you look at what you have in your life and you are oprah, you'll be like, damn!" [ laughter ] this has been "famous quotes first draft." we'll be right back with more "late night." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ only sears brings you more selection with all top ten appliance brands. ♪ like kenmore, the most awarded brand in the industry. and when life happens, more peace of mind with service that's number one nationwide. that's more performance, from the #1 appliance store. start your search at sears. i wasn't always a redhead.? you'd never know it though, because it's nice'n easy color so natural look

if you go into a confucius institute and say gee i'd like to study confucius' classic number five, you one on the spring-autumn annals, the one on the rise and fall of five hegemons, five what? five bah confucius wrote about this, how you become a hegemon or how you bring an old one down. no, that's not really part of our confucius institute program. so this is all legal. it's in the billions and billions. it's all over the world. susan and i went in to see one in south africa recently. massive confucius institute in south africa. having a huge kind of soft power impact. this is focused on the next generation. it isn't giving $100 million to an 80-year-old today to influence his or her views. it's looking at the next generation on college campuses. so that's something i admire. by the way the lady's name is yen dung, and she laid this out to me in the meeting. i always have an escort to make sure i don't say the wrong thing and take notes -- >> and yet you come back. [laughter] >> and she laid out in this meeting we feel we need better soft power around the world, you know? could you h

he's also the author of "confucius and the world he created."thanks for having me on. >> you know thinking of confucius as a management consultant is a different idea. not something i thought about before. how did you get onto this? >> what i found, i've been living in asia for 19 years and, you know every society is based on ideas. you know our ideas are based are greek philosophies and christians. and in asia society is very much based on confucian ideas. and that includes how companies operate, how ceos think, how management relates to their workers, how they make decisions. so if you're going to do business in asia you actually have to kind of know about some of the philosophical background. >> what does confucius say? >> i think what -- i think confucius would look at probably the most prominent chinese ceo jack ma and say he's a pretty good confucian ceo. he would expect a leader to be a very strong leader but also look at the greater good. jack ma talks all the time about how his company should be more of a company. it should do something

so said confucius. here's what he said: "life is simple. but what" -- i'm sorry "life is very simple, but we insist on making it complicated." that's very true, madam president. right now the republican senate leadership is insisting on making a good piece of legislation far more complicated than it should be. this human trafficking child pornography bill before the senate has wide bipartisan support. unfortunately, it also includes a previously unreported abortion provision that has brought us to a screeching halt on this legislation. but there is a quick and very easy solution: take the abortion language out of the bill. the republican leadership doesn't seem to be interested in a solution, though. the senate republican leadership they're all too anxious to shut down debate without fixing the problem. we can stand here all week and question how the abortion language got into the legislation. many believe it was by sleight of hand, but it doesn't matter. it's a fact that republicans included abortion language in this bill that is completel