To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

American supremacy is the greatest threat to the world today.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

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.

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

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.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.