The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

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.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Your reputation is what others think of you

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

You know what I had a problem with? The war - the war in Afghanistan.

We have successfully achieved the target of building toilets in schools.

The world is a clock winding down.

Everything you're currently against blocks you from abundance.