'It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes:In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational:.Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.' Forbes. June 2, 1997.[1]

'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.' - New York Times, November 26, 2006.

'The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop…

'It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.' - CNN Interview, May 25 2005, in arguing the need to raise taxes on the rich.