I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

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.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.