People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

I can't think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can't have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can't? Now with securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.

I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.