We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

I think that most of the candidates [for presidency] can't run the railroad, and I still worry that whoever gets elected will have policies designed for political rather than practical reasons.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

Buy what's deliverable, not what could be.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.