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

I think that the environment is very a complicated question. I am very sympathetic to people who support the environment who live in the United States. I am very sympathetic to people who don't support the environment who live in a very poor country.

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.

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

There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

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.