“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe in, is at the end of the day of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.”

“We live in a society that is based on 30-second sound bites. We havetechnology that puts all of the information of humankind at our fingertips,but we have the attention span of a three-year-old at a carnivalmidway on the Fourth of July. We throw around a lot of words likedemocracy, federal, republic, nationalist, socialist, liberal, and right-wing—butdo we really know what they mean?”

“Live for what you believe in ... and die for it too.”

“We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who createwealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandateto appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command.I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrolmethods for nearly a century because they said they knewbetter. It is now obvious that they didn’t.”

“The question is not whether we should or should not regulate; itis how much should we regulate and who the regulators shouldbe. We went overboard on deregulation under Reagan. UnderBush, many people lost in the casino. Now we have the Obamaadministration overreacting and overreaching with regulation thatdoes the exact opposite of wealth creation. If we are to have changewe can believe in, then we could start by replacing the majorityof the lawyers in regulatory agencies with actual experienced, successfulbusiness veterans. They would have recognized the early warningsigns of many of the financial debacles created by the bubble-bustcycle.”

“I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.”

“Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.”