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

Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

There is no question that a breakup of the euro would be very damaging, very costly, both financially and politically. And the biggest loss would be incurred by Germany. Germans have to bear in mind that, effectively, they have suffered practically no losses so far. Transfers have all been in the form of loans, and it is only when the loans are not repaid that real losses will be incurred.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew, but I have a great deal of sympathy for my fellow Jews and a deep concern for the survival of Israel.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.