We're wealthy people. We're sitting here in New York, Washington. We live in a fantastically wealthy country. We don't have to worry about food. We d….

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate inno….

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because th….

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the ….

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my….

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market..

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and t….

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment..

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that t….

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies ….

We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at prediction. I think what we really do….

There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Sprin….

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world..

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff l….

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things..

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states..

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power..

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially..

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very ….

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in….

I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women a….