Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

American influence is not what it used to be.

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

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.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.

I think that liberals need to grow up.