I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers earned more as economies grew.

There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.