Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people's dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.

The neoconservative doctrine declares that it is the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy to prevent the rise of any country that would have sufficient power to serve as a check on American unilateralism. This neoconservative doctrine puts Russia and China in Washington's crosshairs.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

Offshoring manufacturing jobs left Americans with fewer high-value-added, well-paid jobs, and the U.S. middle class downsized. Ladders of upward mobility were taken down. Income and wealth distributions worsened.

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.

We are not into financial services, and we are not interested also because we find we are better in branded marketing enterprises.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.