I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question. Whenever you are talking about these issues, it's not a question of restricting rights. It's a question of restricting whose rights, and providing for whose rights and that's a tricky balance.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.