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“He will change his mind if he gets a better argument, which is, I think, very unusual. He's quick to throw out statements on things that don't matter, very careful with the things that really do matter. Like when I would see him make decisions on things like b…”

“Ironically, Biden has done nothing with the First Step Act. They have not implemented it the way that it should be,”

“When I met with the Biden team in the transition, I basically told them, you guys can get a deal done with Saudi in three to six months, and that's what they were telling me.”

“I think getting Saudi done will be key because there's another 10 countries that will happen Right after that, whether it's Pakistan, Indonesia, we had a whole bunch of countries that really wanted to go, and I think there's a lot more work to do there, which …”

“But ultimately I think the topic that will probably Be the most impactful of the next four years will be how president Trump deals with artificial intelligence and what could be AGI or super intelligence and how this is coming very rapidly.”

“What I saw with politicians is a lot of politicians We'll take polls and then moderate their perspectives. This is somebody who without pollsters and without any political experience really put forward a lot of points of view and keep in mind in a Republican p…”

“Israel's a nuclear power.”

“So the notion of a Palestinian state really didn't emerge till about 1987, 1988 which is the same time that Hamas actually, you know, came about and they came about really from, they were in offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”

“You can't kill your way out of an ideology”

“Under Obama, when he left, they were selling about 2.6 million barrels of oil a day. Under Trump, when he left office, they were selling a 100,000 barrels of oil a day.”

“They were dead broke. Now they're back up to three million barrels a day of sales. They've done over a hundred billion dollars of oil revenue since we left office.”

“We armed Ukraine, but we also told Ukraine, you know, don't even think about raising NATO as a membership, as a way to go.”

“Another one of those businesses we did was we bought into the food sector in, in Brazil. We bought a lot of the Burger Kings there, and then we just bought the Starbucks and the subway out of bankruptcy. We did that in partnership with Mubatala, which has been…”

“What we saw in Silicon Valley is that they're amazing at solving problems. They're not always the best at identifying which problems to solve.”

“When I was in the White House the first time under President Trump this was part of the efforts that, that he was saying he wanted to focus on, and at his direction, actually, I reached out to TSMC and was in touch with them then to Push them to try and start…”

“You see the regulation they put on in Europe, and that's why there's really not a whole lot happening in Europe on the AI front right now”

“We invested then at about 37 dollars a share. Today, the stock's almost 120 dollars a share. Because we needed a approval from the regulator, we bought 4.9 then, and then another 4.9 later. So we're able to use better leverage because the shares went up quite …”

“I think that it's very, very important to have private sector people going into government, doing tours of duty versus just having a permanent political class which I think is is not necessarily great for the long-term interests of America.”

“We had a thesis at the time, which I think was the right thesis. We just had the wrong timing and the wrong capital structure.”

“And I saw this in government as well, because in government, most of the people I dealt with had never really negotiated before. If you think about people who are technically experienced in government, they're experienced because they're more like historians o…”

“It was shocking to me at how rare that is, and I think that that approach really built for me tremendous trust and understanding with a lot of the leaders in the region, and ultimately led to a lot of the different breakthroughs that we were able to accomplish…”

“And a lot of the modern Middle East in particular was really constructed by generals and US diplomats who were focused on strength and power as the way to create an equilibrium. But all that leads to is one creating strength and power, then the other trying to…”

“And I think that that's the right formula for people to be using going forward for diplomacy, not how do we out militarize each other? I think military is an important component to it, but to have an end state that's sustainable, you need to figure out how can…”

“He had a very unconventional approach. But the thing I respected about my father-in-law was that he was very unafraid to go after hard challenges. So like the Middle East, for example, was something that most leaders would set low expectations on and then try …”

“If the Ukraine-Russia situation is dealt with, I think the Iranian situation becomes much more manageable as well.”

“I think the whole world could benefit from like a decade of rebuilding where people focus internally on building their countries and their societies and their infrastructure and their economies. Focus on AI. I think a lot of these issues could be resolved pret…”

“I think that President Trump, what he wants is a fair global trading system, which I think is critical because sometimes when these things become imbalanced, they lead to tensions between countries that are unnecessary.”

“I learned this the hard way when I was in Washington, that there's not really a big constituency for compromise, and these conflicts are very heated.”

“You saw when Elon Musk put out an idea for how to navigate the situation in Ukraine, he got blasted by a lot of people.”

“A lot of the work that President Trump did with China in his first term was about having them acknowledge that they were not following the rules that were set in the global trading sphere.”

“We made a big investment in Israel, and we did that in the summertime right before the war in the north. And we invested in a company called Phoenix. We bought 4.9%, and we took a fixed price option, 37 and a half shekels. Today it's trading over 50, and we ha…”

“And I said, with all due respect sir, you don't have a messaging problem. You have a fact problem.”

“And we just basically pushed all the bureaucrats out of the way. And started figuring out how to make decisions as quickly as possible.”

“One of the coolest things, which actually led to, I think some of the success we had with Operation Warp Speed was I got a call one night at about 10 o'clock from Ken Griffin, who basically called and said, Jared, one of the best investments you could ever mak…”

“And so through that, we were actually making great progress where we basically were going to get about 400 testing sites up from nothing in about four or five days.”

“And we did four finalists, and there was only one person we interviewed who said they could do it in under a year. All the experts said it would take us two to three years to do it. It was a guy, Dr. Monsef Slaoui.”

“That was never the intention of what we want to do. The goal was to create the vaccines for whoever wanted them and then to figure out how to prioritize them towards the cohorts that were at the highest risk.”

“I think with the government, what I found with a lot of the career civil servants is there's actually a lot of incredible people there. But what happens is, is they're not really given a clear objective and they're not given empowerment to go and accomplish th…”

“I will say that only a president as out of the box as Donald Trump would ever allow something like this to happen.”

“And if you look at with Millet in Argentina, what he's done, I mean, that's been one of the most exciting transformations to watch.”

“In business, we're rewarded for taking risks, and when I do a company, or if I'm backing a founder, or if I'm building a company myself, I wanna be focused on things that might potentially fail, because we have big ambitious goals in government. The goal is to…”

“And one thing also that I loved about the first Trump administration, I think will be about a hundred X in the second Trump administration, is that Trump is a businessman, and he was a pragmatist, and he brought a lot of businessmen with him to Washington.”

“I'm less concerned with what the current state of the company is. I'm way more focused on what do I think that company can be in five years, or seven years, or 10 years. And if I have a very strong conviction that it could become that, then you kind of have to…”

“I think that people for the next couple centuries will really study the economic turnaround that they're doing in their country, and it doesn't come without risk.”

“They have about ten million people. So it's not as big of a consumption market, but they've tried to make themselves a major financial hub. They're a great tourism destination. They've become a place where a lot of people put their corporate offices, and I thi…”

“The controversies you hear about them are around, they're funding a lot of these colleges and universities, but From what I've looked into that, it shows that they're basically funding the universities that have built campuses in their country because they car…”

“So like one example I use is with North Korea, where I think President Trump did a great job of lowering the temperature with Kim Jong Un.”

“I think what I've seen with Western diplomats is they're saying, well, you have to denuclearize, you have to change. I think that that's the right outcome. The question is, can you be nimble and help build them a golden bridge? We have to eliminate all the esc…”