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

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.

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

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.

L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

Though the names karma yoga and sannyasa are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Well, you know what they say. A bullet always tells the truth.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.

If I walk down the street in jeans and a plain t-shirt, I don't feel like the world sees me as I want to be seen or as what I am.

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?