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

I think the best way to control a population is to urbanize and to educate women. We have seen historically in many, many countries that once women are educated and have opportunities, and that happens when they live in cities and once they improve their economies, they no longer want to have eight kids. They want to have one or two or maybe three. And that is much more sustainable for them because they have other opportunities.

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.

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.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

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

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.