Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

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.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

A glorious life is a spark of divinity.

Patience is the highest asceticism.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

There are no friends; only moments of friendship.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into the Court's prison facilities.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.