I think this is so important - what's not done well at education at every level - is helping kids find, as I discovered for myself, what I was good at. I was very lucky to find out that at an early age, which set my direction in life.

I get a lot of death threats. But the way I look at it, I feel I have a moral obligation to do the best I can to make the country better for everybody, and that threatens certain people because they're going to have much less power. I want the power to go back to people making decisions over their own lives rather than some experts making it.

If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.

In America, we are just moving the chairs around and spending huge amounts of money rather than having them go in making people's lives better.

Our system here of creating value for others and having people do the right thing, exchange information, and so on only works if people have the right values.

If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit that a few wise people can determine interest rates. Interest rates should be driven by the market, and people's time preference, and we see these boom-bust cycles.

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society...