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" When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. "
George Soros
Myself
Values
Family
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" Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets. "
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Own
Real
Will
" I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. "
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Freedom
Home
Value
" My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. "
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Society
Support
Care
" Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems. "
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Role
Negative
" Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago. "
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Election
Winner
Matter
" I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. "
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Economy
Think
Social
" Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. "
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Look
Value
Take Care
" Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. "
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Now
Respect
Process
" Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. "
George Soros
Air
Market
Reality
" An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. "
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Others
Open
Freedom
" I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. "
George Soros
Doing
Work
Good
" The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium. "
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Reality
Markets
Financial
" Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. "
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Legal
Competitive
Trade
" Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed. "
George Soros
Crisis
Banking
You
" Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret. "
George Soros
Drive
Regret
People
" The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences. "
George Soros
Result
Consequences
Negative
" There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well. "
George Soros
Manifest
Anti-Semitism
Europe
" A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy. "
George Soros
Fair
Essential
Democracy
" To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states. "
George Soros
Mind
Create
People
" When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. "
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Consequences
Acting
Success
" Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties. "
George Soros
Done
War
Military
" Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. "
George Soros
Obvious
Unexpected
Money
" I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. "
George Soros
Society
World
Work
" Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually. "
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Save
Costs
Revenue
" The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. "
George Soros
Looking
You
Finance
" A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to. "
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Financial
Evil
World
" I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it. "
George Soros
I See
Same
See
" The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside. "
George Soros
Bigger
Turn
Worse
" The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. "
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Possible
People
Free
" If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems. "
George Soros
People
Need
World