Name: Why Buffett now keeps his politics to himself
Uploaded: 2026-03-11T15:01:02.000Z
Duration: 1 min 43 s
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You haven't commented as much publicly lately either.

You basically save it for the annual meeting when all the shareholders come into town.

Well, for one thing, I made the statement a few years ago, maybe, I don't know, five or six years ago.

Somebody asked about taking political stands, and

I said that you don't put your citizenship in a blind trust, but as a CEO.

You had three or four hundred thousand employees.

You had millions of shareholders, but nevertheless, you were entitled.

I think I revisited that opinion in my mind because people have gotten so tribal.

We saw it on our gifts program at one time, but

there's no reason why somebody that's answering a phone at Geico or waiting on a customer at the Nebraska Furniture Mart should be dealing with people who have a negative opinion of the company because of something I've said.

If I want to speak as a private citizen, I should resign from Berkshire, but

I've got identified so much with Berkshire that I.

As long as I'm speaking at the annual meeting or anything like that, people associate it with the voice of Berkshire to some extent, and

The companies don't deserve it, and so I backed away from that.