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

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….

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what….

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….

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth..

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….

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

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….

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

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….

I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly they want monopolies, they want governmen….

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….

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..

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….

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part….

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

Whether it is gun control lobby, health care lobby, or abortion, pro-choice lobby, whatever it is, people are always trying to say that it is about r….

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 ….

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

I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going o….

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….