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

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.

Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.

Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.