Before a negotiation can proceed and be completed, what is outside the scope of negotiation needs to be agreed.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't move positions as quickly and as erratically as men. Maybe it is a bit less profitably, but I think it would have been less risky.

If inflation is the genie, then deflation is the ogre that must be fought decisively.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better.