Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

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.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things.

International institutions like the Security Council, the General Assembly, the G20, the BRICs, the IMF, etc., continue to be little more than an extension of the (increasingly conflicting) values and interests of member states.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.