The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.