I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.

It means zero to be against greed.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.