We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, lets be honest.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.