Quotes from Foster Friess

People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.

Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?

The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

Rick Santorum has so much potential and so much eagerness to serve our country.

I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.

It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'

We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.