The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.