Sam Bankman-Fried

Parties are not my scene.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

It's a full-time job running FTX.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

At our parties we play board games.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I want to support great public servants.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I'm very skeptical of books.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

My goal is to have impact.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I don't want a yacht.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I would never read a book.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I spend a lot of my day talking to candidates for office.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I left Jane Street Capital to start on my own ideas and got into crypto.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

There are trillions of people who have not yet been born.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The SEC is very likely going to end up regulating spot security token markets.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think that there are, in some ways, surprisingly little money in politics.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

On the social side, I think I always felt more comfortable around older people.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I know how good I am at passing out leaflets, and the answer is mediocre.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The things that matter most are the things that have long-term impact on what the world will look like.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We are the most regulated crypto exchange by far. We are regulated by some definition by more regulators than any exchange of…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When we think about what FTX represents, we want to be the best product that is out there.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think that it is really important that there's federal oversight of the crypto industry.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX has shareholders and we have a duty to do reasonable things by them and I certainly feel more comfortable incinerating my…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

If you imagine an election where everyone running on both sides of the aisle for every race was an amazing public servant,…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

If you look at carbon produced per dollar of economic activity, crypto is not a huge outlier.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We're going to be doing what we can to try to get news about FTX out there and get more eyeballs on…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

When you're talking about having an impact on the world, I think that the point at which there's nothing more to do…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We're really excited to support candidates who are making a point of putting pandemic prevention as one of their core policy positions…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We have financial audits, both for FTX U.S. and FTX International. Each year. We have regulatory oversight, again, from a number of…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

It's a really messy system where there is no interoperability between different platforms. There's no ability to see a Tweet on Facebook.…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

We saw a social network choose not to censor misinformation in 2016 and got burned for that decision, then we saw them…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I think it has historically been the case that crypto has been substantially more lightly regulated with much less oversight than traditional…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The moment that a bunch of brokers, including Robinhood, restricted buying of Gamestop, like literally that hour hundreds of millions of dollars…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

What is the moderation policy for all of social media - it's like three guys? It's the people who run three companies…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

There are nonconstructive people on both sides of the aisle, and there are constructive people on both sides of the aisle. And…

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I'm not super-extroverted.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I was a really negligent student.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I did not try to commit fraud on anyone.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

The bitcoin network is not a payments network and it is not a scaling network.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

There are a lot of ways to do good in the world.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

High school and middle school are not the things that I am really made for.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

I care much less what party someone is from than I do what their beliefs are.

— Sam Bankman-Fried