I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

You can't have a competitive, egalitarian meritocracy if only some of your citizens have the opportunity for a good education.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

I would like to be remembered, if I am remembered at all, as being a catalyst for change in the world, change for good.