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I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.