I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

My sense of insecurity keeps me alert, always ready to correct my errors.

You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.