I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever.

I don't think about the money side. I just think about how I can create a culture of winning.

I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons.