Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

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.

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.

It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and his friends. They can play around with statistics as much as they want, but it's clear that we have an unfair distribution of wealth.