I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

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.

Berlin is a very edgy place, a very cosmopolitan place. It's a place where completely different ideas and cultures come together and clash in a very warm way. In a very warm-hearted way.

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.

I don't see a coherent global order anywhere on the horizon.

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out around the world no matter what the level of direct American interest or connection are going to be very limited. Increasingly, Africa will be doing that.

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