Norman Braman

I went through a significant illness in 1991 and had some major surgery, and I made up my mind that I have to get my life in order, and the first thing that I would try to accomplish was to get out of the sports business.

There's more to life than the National Football League.

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.

If you have the opportunity to have the best of the artist, then if you overpay, it doesn't matter. Eventually, the market will reward you. If it raises the value of our collection, we go for it.

Complex digestive conditions harm the physical and emotional well-being of many children, but GI research is severely undervalued and underfunded.

I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers' dollars. What better way to show the community what we're all about, as a welcome to come to the Institute of Contemporary Art and be a part of what we're doing here?

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

We, in the business world, invest our money to make a profit. Sports teams make a good profit. That's the way the system should work, not taxpayers forking over these dollars to for-profit enterprises.

I don't believe in dynasties; I don't believe in coronations. That is not how it works in this country.

A weak America poses a threat to the future of Israel.