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I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke up and was worth a hundred. That's a lot of money back then.

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Government actually grew during the Reagan years.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.