We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.