Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence to support Martin Luther King Jr., to support the civil rights movement, and other important work, including work in Africa throughout his career. And Bill Russell is still at it.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

I think I've gotten and developed tremendous relationships throughout the world with the leaders.

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.

The single greatest problem the world has is nuclear armament, nuclear weapons, not global warming.

These are stupid people that say, ‘Oh didn’t Trump declare bankruptcy? Didn’t he go bankrupt?’ I didn’t go bankrupt.

I'm a Republican, but if I had my choice of running or having Obama - or somebody, but Obama, even Barack Obama - be a great president, the greatest president ever, I'd be so happy for the country. He doesn't have the capability to be a great president, and the world is laughing. We're like a joke. As a country, we're becoming like a joke. Everybody is ripping us off.