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

The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

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

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

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.

State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.