The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

The embargo doesn't affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba's economy is smaller than that of Miami-Dade County, and the ones who suffer the most are Cubans. If you talk to them in the street, they're the ones most interested in the opening of a free market in their country.

The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.