Ian Bremmer Quotes

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.