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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.

We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

You should never leave something with a feeling of defeat.

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom.

When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.