If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.

I remember we used to have much better family ties too… parents very often lived with you, little children learned from the older generations, there was a deep personal link between generations… now? if I give advice to one of my grandchildren they laugh and say, 'oh my, you don't know about our lives today…'

I didn't have a childhood- I didn't play- every day was about survival. I was always moving to a different-place on a weekly/monthly basis.

You can't stop risks completely, that's the whole point of a free market.

We've created a reflex for paternalism whereby a donor looks upon the recipients of large assets with an attitude akin to saying 'well, you need me don't you... here I am... take what I have regardless of what you want and need.' There's also a kind of overambition about what money alone can achieve.