"I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him."

“The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”

“Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

“Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.”

“Only stupid questions create wealth.”

“The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

“Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting”

“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?”