I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

If somebody is doing more and more to make other people's lives better, have them make all they can, if that's what drives them, because that's what we want.

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

The problem is, to have prices fall would work fine if we didn't have all these built in rigidities on downward prices, because then things don't adjust, and that's how we have recessions and depressions, is prices and costs don't adjust together and they get out of whack, and we end up with dislocations.

The good and the bad news is that politicians rarely do what they say they are going to do when they campaign.