It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

It's all these pundits, all these consultants, and the candidates, as if they're in a bubble leaving democracy off-limits.

We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.

President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

I don't like too much by-standing, on-looking, and spectator-behavior in people's lives.

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).