I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

White House staff spends enormous amounts of time planning a president's every move so that his public persona reflects the mood of the public.

Ed Rogers is a career insider who has personally enriched himself off of what he decries.

While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall.

I've seen the government up close and personal, and for the most part, it's inefficient and hidebound, and it stifles creativity in any industry it clutches within its well-meaning but slimy tentacles.

While all democratic systems are works in progress, ours started rather late and therefore has a longer distance to cover. But democratic transformation for us is not mimicking some facets of Western governance. The focus has been on building institutions of democratic governance.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.