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

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.

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what, in a sense, market fundamentalism does, because it is in the interests of people who have a lot of money to have as little taxes as possible.

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

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.