In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate.

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider that their own policies, which put the entire burden on central bankers to print money and drive up stock, bond and other asset prices, are actually exacerbating income and wealth disparity.

In April 2013, Nathaniel Popper of 'The New York Times' reported on Bitcoin in an article titled, 'Digital Money is Gaining Champions in the Real World'.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

From the Americans, I took the meet-up platform, from Howard Dean. He used it to gather money. I use it to gather information, to gather forums, not money. This we copied from the United States, the use of the Internet.

I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.