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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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