At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.