Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby's ability to influence political contributions.