The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.

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.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get to work, your future lies ahead of you

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

I'm not famous I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

You'd commit suicide trying to read my mind

You can only fight the way you practice

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.