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One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.