There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

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.

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!

God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?

The past doesn't buy you much.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.