If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

you are here.the moontides are here.and that’s all that matters.

Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.

Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.