My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

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

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

American influence is not what it used to be.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.