If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.

We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know, they have various capital ratios and that sort of thing, but the banks got around them, I mean, they set up sieves and that sort of thing just to get more leverage. People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.