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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto power, can hold on to stability and can drive the economy forward.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.