Brexit has shrunk the market opportunities. Exiting trade deals will do the same for the U.S. Those deals must be actively shaped and governed to make growth more inclusive.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

Rethinking capitalism means rethinking the role of the public sector, the role of the private sector, the role of finance, and the relationship between them all.

Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.

Unfortunately, simplistic framing of problems leads to simplistic answers.

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

While infrastructure is of course important, it must be part of a bigger vision. The point is not to simply dig ditches but to steer those investments towards transformational growth.

Happiness is free like the air we all breathe

I think the UN's role - especially since it's not an extremely rich fund, and that's to put it mildly - is mainly to act as a leading thinker of the world in terms of how to think about the future.

We cannot promote someone to Commander-in-Chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment Hillary Clinton has made.

Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more.