The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.
The cost of assessing risk is now often greater than the cost of failing.
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.