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….

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

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United State….

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 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….

International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an ext….

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….

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 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….

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

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

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

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It….

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well..

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….

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

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state..

In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and t….

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less a….

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….