It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

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.

Everything I write is a rebound.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Manu Ginobili is just a baller dude.

Yet some say Love by being thrall And simply staying possesses all In several beauty that Thought fares far To find fused in another star.