You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

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.

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.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.

Please feel free to take this personally.