I love what I do. It's up to the board how long I do it. As long as I have the energy and the spit in the eye and the fire in the gut, yeah, I want to do it. At least five more years.

We ended up being so reliant on other people, potential adversaries, for things critical to the security of the United States. We did some real research on 28 industry groups... what are the things you need for resiliency? That's $1.5 trillion. My guess is it will be quite a bit more than that by the time we get done.

Everyone I know, including the President of the United States, says we need an independent Fed. The question is only about when certain things take place and think of lawsuits and stuff like that, does it chip away at that independence? ...if you chip away too much, in my view, this is my opinion, it will drive rates higher, not lower.

Our deficit is almost $2 trillion this year. Our total debt is $30 trillion. That's going to be next year $32 trillion, then $34 trillion, then $37 trillion, then $40 trillion. This is not sustainable. It will not work eventually. I just don't know when that is.

The biggest unknown is geopolitics. It's a moving tectonic plate. Alliances, obviously this terrible war in Ukraine... Those folks have told you what they want to do. They want to dismantle the system set up by the Western world after World War II that's been quite successful. Yeah, there are a lot of forces at play.