I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.