We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

We need someone in Washington who knows how to build jobs from the ground up.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

Boston and America is really resilient.

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

I never wanted to be a star, and I don't really want to be famous. I just love the stability of my life. I'm a complete family guy.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.