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.

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.

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.

Ambivalence is one of the biggest enemies of change. If you aren't sure that you really want to take action on something such as your weight, ambivalence will usually win.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.

Once you've seen the signs about the barn, it becomes impossible to see the barn.

Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.

I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.