Financially, we're more stable than we've been in many, many years.

If you want to set up your own stables, make sure you can achieve it financially and you have the time and legal permission to do it.

Contributing financially to charitable organizations is certainly noble and should be encouraged and is something that the Gores have done when the resources were there. However, to truly judge a person's commitment to helping others, you need to consider what they have done with their lives and how they have spent their time -- and by that standard the Gores are extraordinarily committed.

We're not saying things will always be stable. We're saying we'll be able to respond to changes to make sure the bear's OK.

You really want to do things on your own, but sometimes, financially, you can't do that.

If we were going to fail, we would've failed by now. We are about to celebrate our fourth anniversary on Oct. 7 and we are starting to plan events for next year, when we have our fifth anniversary. We're here for the long term. We're financially stable.