The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.