The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.