Put yourself in the shoes of one of these oligarchs who has been given a gift of $10 billion. Russia is in a deep depression. Nobody's investing. There is a widespread political consensus that the way you got your wealth is illegitimate.

We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but we aren't going to open our markets to your commodities. In the nineteenth century, they used gunboats. Now they use economic weapons and arm-twisting.

If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

Most people think the Iraq war has increased the probability of an attack. However, it's difficult to put this aspect into financial terms.