West

“To believe that America is a great evil, to believe that the West is not exceptional in its values, even with all of our flaws, is a luxury belief.”

“I do think the West was unique in its ability to have liberalism, you know, succeed and then kind of spread those values around the world.”

“The second thing we learned is that the Ukrainians have a much better military than we expect. And I think a lot of that is due to the arms and training that we provided them over the last few years.”

“It's, I've done both, and it's much easier to launch currencies than to scale factories. And once you have that in mind, it's way easier for China or any other country, frankly, that has natural resources or manufacturing or both to launch a currency than it i…”

“China and Russia realize this. They didn't realize it before. And that is going to change where they invest their money. And we'll give them ability to catch up if we're not on top of this.”

“The most important thing in my view that can happen for the preservation of the West and its values is for the US military to be by far the best in the world.”

“The future of the West depends on buying things from people that are Sometimes, not always, outside the norm, unlikable to you, are not going to conform to your thing, are not going to do the right dinners.”

“But where do you get the first abolitionist sentiment? In other words, the first principle of slavery is wrong for all time, no matter who you are. You get that in the West. You get that in America and in Britain in the 18th century. You know, from Quakers and…”