We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

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

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

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

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.